This handout image provided by the Iranian Army Office on November 7, 2021, shows Iranian soldiers participating in a military exercise on the shore of the Sea of Oman in the coastal region of Baluchistan. (Photo: Iranian Army office / AFP)
A mask-clad youth walks in front of a large poster of Iraq's populist Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr, in Sadr City, east of the capital Baghdad, July 15, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
Peshmerga Sector 6 Commander Sirwan Barzani shakes hands with an Iraqi commander during a joint anti-ISIS operation near Makhmour. (Photo: Sirwan Barzani/Twitter).
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (left) during his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, April 10, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency office)
Supporters of Iranian-backed PMF militias at a site where violent clashes erupted between them and Iraqi security forces on Nov. 5, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
A Taliban official (C) addresses journalists near the Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan military hospital in Kabul on November 2, 2021, after at least 19 people were killed and 50 others wounded in an attack on a military hospital. (Photo: Wakil