KDP President Masoud Barzani (right) is pictured during his first meeting with Robert Palladino, the new US Consul General in Erbil, July 11, 2021. (Photo: KDP)
Aid workers formed a human chain to advocate for keeping open a border crossing through which aid is delivered to northeast Syria. (Photo: Omar Haj Khadour/AFP)
Masrour Barzani (Right), prime Minister of Kurdistan regional Government, with Ahmed al-Jarba, head of the Peace and Freedom Front, July 10, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
An Iraqi man connects overhead cables providing generator electricity to homes and businesses who can afford it in Sadr City, east of the capital Baghdad, on July 2, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye)
Palestinians watch a Hamas rally just over a week after a ceasefire was reached in an 11-day war between Hamas and Israel, May 30, 2021, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. (Photo: Felipe Dana/AP)
Masrour Barzani, Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, with the Indian Ambassador to Iraq, Birender Singh Yadav, July 7, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) former member of parliament Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu (C) reacts as he hugs a relative after being released from the Sincan Prison, in Ankara, July 6, 2021. (Photo: Adem Altan/AFP)
