An Iraqi woman shows her inked-stained finger after casting her vote in the country’s parliamentary elections in Ramadi, Iraq, May 12, 2018. (Photo: Hadi Mizban/AP)
Assyrian intellectuals and religious leaders standing for a moment of silence in the Kurdistan Region's Ankawa district to commemorate the 89th anniversary of the Simele massacre, August 7, 2022. (Photo: Shayma Bayiz/Kurdistan 24)
In this photo released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Enrique Mora, a leading European Union diplomat, left, shakes hands with Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani in Tehran, Mar. 27, 2022 (Photo: Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP
Supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr gather at the Iraqi capital Baghdad's high-security Green Zone as they continue their ongoing protest against a nomination for prime minister by a rival Shiite faction, August 5, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad
Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr (image), occupy the Iraqi parliament for a fifth consecutive day, in protest at a nomination for prime minister by a rival Shiite faction in Baghdad's Green Zone, August 3, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Ruba
Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Democratic Party with Bafel Talabani, president of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Aug. 4, 2022. (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)
Minister of Peshmerga Affairs Shoresh Ismail Abdulla (right) met separately with US and British military officials on Tuesday, Apr. 5, 2022 (Photo: Shoresh Ismail Abdulla/Facebook)
Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr (image), wave flags as they occupy the Iraqi parliament for a fifth consecutive day in the capital Baghdad's Green Zone, August 3, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Masoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) on Wednesday met with Hans Akerboom, the Dutch Consul General to Erbil, August 3, 2022. (Photo: Barzani headquarters)
The bulk carrier Razoni starts its way from the port in Odesa, Ukraine, Aug. 1, 2022. According to Ukraine's Ministry of Infrastructure, the ship is carrying 26 thousand tons of Ukrainian corn to Lebanon (Photo: Michael Shtekel/AP)