The top UN envoy in Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, spoke at a conference on political unity and the Kurdistan consitution on May 19, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) and UN special envoy for Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert at a conference on political unity on May 19, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
A previous visit of US Deputy Envoy to Syria David Brownstein (center left) to the Foreign Relations Department of the local administration in the northern Syrian city of Qamishlo, April 14, 2021. (Photo: AANES)
Ayazudin Hilal, a former Afghan interpreter for the US, holds his medal during an interview in Kabul, Afghanistan on April 30, 2021. (Photo: Mariam Zuhaib/AP)
Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Joey Hood (L) in a meeting with Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani in Erbil on May 15, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
The Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system (left) intercepts rockets (right) fired by Hamas towards southern Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, May 14, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Anas Baba)
Iraqis set Israeli flags on fire during a solidarity march with the Palestinians, in the capital Baghdad on the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" of Israel's creation in 1948, May 15, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad AL-Rubaye / AFP
