A man rides a bicycle past election campaign billboards depicting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a candidate for the upcoming presidential vote, in Damascus on May 23, 2021. (Photo: Louai Beshara/AFP)
The oil tanker Mercer Street, which came under attack last week off the coast of Oman, is seen moored off Fujairah, UAE. The UK navy warned of a “potential hijack” of another ship in the Gulf of Oman on Aug. 3. (Photo: Jon Gambrell/AP)
President Masoud Barzani (right) is pictured during his meeting with UK Ambassador to Iraq Mark Bryson-Richardson, August 9, 2021. (Photo: Barzani Headquarter)
Iraqi oil minister, Ihsan Abdul Jabbar Ismaael (right) during his meeting with KRG Minister of Natural Resources Kamal Atroushi in Baghdad, August 8, 2021. (Photo: Iraqi oil ministry)
Over the Horizon Force recently completed a rapid deployment force protection mission in Iraq and returned to its home base in Kuwait, Col. Wayne Marotto said. (Photo: OIRspox/Twitter)
Immigrants are standing behind a fence in a newly constructed refugee camp at the Ludninkai Military Training Ground, about 38 km (23.6 miles) south of Vilnius, Lithuania, on Wednesday, August 4, 2021.
The Kurdistan Region delegation (left) is pictured during their meeting with the Iranian legislators in Tehran, August 6, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Mehmet Altun was arrested on August 5, 2021 in connection with the killing of 7 members of a Kurdish family in Konya, Turkey. (Photo: Abdullah Coskun/AA)
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (right) met Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani and Speaker of the Parliament Dr. Rewaz Fayaq in Tehran on August 6, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
