Minister of Peshmerga Affairs, Shorsh Ismail (R), Colonel Lars Persikowsk, the Commander-in-Chief of the German Forces (L). (Photo: KRG Ministery of Peshmerga)
Fuad Hussein, Chairman of the Council and Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq (right), walking alongside Taif Sami, Iraqi Minister of Finance in Erbil, Sept. 7, 2024. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
This picture taken on Nov. 29, 2021 shows an aerial view of a sweeper using a metal-detector to search for landmines near the village of Hassan-Jalad, north of Iraq's city of Mosul. (Photo: Zaid al-Obeidi/AFP)