A picture shows bystanders near a destroyed car in the southern Iraqi city of Basra after at least four civilians were killed and four more wounded in a motorcycle bombing near a hospital, Dec. 7, 2021. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (Right) meets with Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio in Erbil, Dec. 23, 2021. (Photo: KRG Presidency)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (Right) meets with former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Erbil, Dec. 22, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Hoshyar Zebari, a high-level KDP official, (right) greets Nouri al-Maliki, the State of Law Secretary General and leader of Coordination Framework in Erbil, Dec. 22, 2021. (Photo: Erbil Governorate)
Iranian ambassador Hassan Eyrlou attends a vigil in Sanaa to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, Jan. 2, 2021. (Photo: Mohammed Huwais/AFP)
Minister of Communication Arkan Al-Shaibani holding a press conference in Baghdad to brief reporters on the Iraqi Cabinet's meeting, Dec. 21, 2021. (Photo: Iraqi Government Twitter account)
