Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdoulahian speaks during the multilateral conference on Afghanistan in Tehran on October 27. (Photo: ATTA KENARE / AFP)
A still from videos posted on social media showing smoke rising from areas that saw violent clashes between Iraqi police forces and supporters of Iran-aligned PMF militias. (Photo: Social media)
Hifzullah Kutum, a research assistant at Fırat University who was detained by the Turkish police after posting Biji Kurdistan (Long Live Kurdistan) and pictures of Kurdish leaders on his social media. (Photo: Duvar English)
Affiliates of pro-Iran militias gather near the Iraqi capital's Green Zone as part of protests to reject the official results of the national election held in October. (Photo: Social media video/Screenshot)
A demonstrator holds up a banner reading "no reform and no change while maintaining the allotment scheme", during a protest in al-Haboubi Square in the centre of Iraq's city of Nasiriyah, Oct. 25, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
Masrour Barzani (Right), Kurdistan Region’s Prime Minister during a meeting with Christian Ritscher, Special Adviser and Head of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL (UNITAD). (
Lebanese hold Saudi Arabia flags during a protest in support of the kingdom against comments made by a Lebanese minister over the war in Yemen, in front of the Saudi Arabia Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 30, 2021. (Photo: Bilal Hussein/AP
