Viola von Cramon (center), the Chief Observer from EU to Iraqi elections, is pictured during a launching press conference in Baghdad, Sept. 16, 2021. (Photo: German Embassy Iraq/Twitter))
An amputee uses crutches to walk in a debris-strewn street in the old neighborhood of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Nov. 7, 2018. (Photo: Zaid al-Obeidi/AFP)
Kurdistan Region President (middle) shakes hand with a British official upon his arrival to London, Sept. 15, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency Media Office)
KRG Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (left) hands over the official decree announcing Halgurd Sheikh Najeeb as new head of Soran autonomous administration, Sept. 14, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
Labour leader Jonas Gahr Store cheers after seeing the exit poll during the Labour's election party following the 2021 Norwegian parliamentary elections, in Oslo, Norway, Sept. 13, 2021. (Photo: AP)
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (left) talking with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on September 13. (Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Masoud Barzani (Right), leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) with David Hunt, the new British Consul General to Erbil, Spt. 13, 2021. (Photo: Barzani Head Quarter)
