US President Joe Biden speaks from the East Room of the White House to virtually address the Munich Security Conference in Germany on February 19, 2021. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP)
Prime Minister of Kurdistan Regional Government, Masrour Barzani (Right), and the newly appointed governor of Erbil, Omed Khoshanw, Feb. 20, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
Rep. Michael McCaul during panel, holding a hearing titled, "The Betrayal of our Syrian Kurdish Partners," on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. (Photo: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
Aram Balatayi, 41, served as the spokesperson for the KDP bloc in the Iraqi Council of Representatives before contracting the coronavirus in December 2020. (Photo: Archive)
A worker cleans shattered glass on Feb. 16, 2021 outside a damaged shop following a rocket attack the previous night in the Kurdistan Region’s capital of Erbil. (Photo: AFP)
