Ano Jawhar, Minister of Transport and Communications of the KRF, third from the right, with the participants of the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, on Feb. 5, 2026. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Yazidi Kurds performing the rites and rituals of Winter Forty-Day Feast (or in Kurdish Çileya Zivistanê) at Lalish Temple, Feb. 2, 2026. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
President Masoud Barzani, R, Sam Darmo, head of the Assyrians for Justice Foundation in the United States, in Pirmam, Erbil, Jan. 5, 2025. (Kurdistan24)
Duhok Governor Ali Tatar, delivering a speech at the event of laying the foundation stone a memorial commemorating Assyrian victims of the 1933 Semel massacre, Jan. 4, 2025. (Kurdistan24)
Pope Leo XIV waves after delivering the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for 'to the city and to the world' ) Christmas' day blessing from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Dec. 25, 2025. (Photo: AP)