KDP President Masoud Barzani, in a meeting with former parliament speaker Mohamed al-Halbousi, the head of the Progress Party, and Khamis al-Khanjar, the leader of the Azm Alliance, on Jan. 8, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
President Joe Biden has nominated Lt. Gen. Michael "Erik" Kurilla, commander of the XVIII Airborne Corps, to head U.S. Central Command and be promoted to four-star general, according to multiple U.S. officials. (Photo: Spc. Andrea Notter/U.
a view of the Emirati-flagged vessel "Rwabee" in the Red Sea seized by Yemen's Huthi rebels and reportedly carrying Saudi military equipment, Jan. 3, 2022. (Photo: AFP Photo/Ho/Al-Huthi Group Media Office)
An Iranian woman mourns next to flag-draped caskets of unknown soldiers who were killed during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, whose remains were recently recovered from former battlefields, during their funeral in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 6
An actor in the role of the Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohamed, enacts a scene from a play titled "The Resurrection of the Earth" produced by the Hashed al-Shaabi, Dec. 29, 2021. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
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