Ahmed Al Mansuri, founder of Crossroads of Civilization private museum, left, greets a rabbi at an exhibition commemorating the Jewish Holocaust in Dubai, UAE, May 26, 2021. (Photo: Kamran Jebreili/AP)
KDP leader Masoud Barzani (right) met Ole Diehl, the outgoing German Ambassador to Iraq, in the Kurdistan Region’s Erbil, May 26, 2021. (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)
Iraqis demonstrate in the southern city of Basra to demand accountability for a recent wave of killings targeting activists, May 25, 2021. (Photo: Hussien Faleh / AFP)
Residents of the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishlo in northeast Syria cast their votes in the Syrian presidential elections, May 26, 2021. (Photo: Akram Salih/Kurdistan 24)
A Syrian voter shows a ballot with the pictures of the three candidates in Syria’s presidential election, including President Bashar al-Assad (right), before casting her vote in Damascus on May 26, 2021. (Photo: Louai Beshara/AFP)
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, left, leaves after addressing the media regarding the monitoring of Irans’s nuclear energy program at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, May 24, 2021. (Photo: Florian Schroetter/AP)
In this May 12, 2014 file photo, campaign posters for the upcoming presidential election adorn a street in Damascus, Syria. The banner reads, “Together with Bashar Assad.” (Photo: AP/File)
KRG Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with Françoise Dumas, the head of defense commission at the French National Assembly, May 25, 2021. (Photo: KRG)