Security
Popular Mobilization Forces surround the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. (Photo: Hadi Mizban/AP)
Rahman Gharib, the head of the The Metro Center for Journalists Rights and Advocacy, June 20, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (UCIRF), Nadine Maenza. (Photo: Social media)
Taliban fighters stand on a vehicle along the roadside in Kandahar, Aug. 13, 2021. (Photo: AFP)
Members of a Turkish-backed militia patrol the Kurdish-majority Syrian city of Afrin. (Photo: AFP)
Elbrus Kutrashev, Russia's ambassador to Iraq, speaks at MERI Forum 2021. (Photo: Screenshot MERI livestream)
The Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani speaks during an interview. (Photo: KRG)
Iraqi authorities excavate a mass grave site in the Anbar Governorate (Photo: UNITAD)
Relatives of the victims of the deadly ISIS attack are in Miqdadiya Hospital in Diyala province on Tuesday night, Oct. 27, 2021. (Photo: Social Media)
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Former ISIS commander Subhi Ibrahim Muslim (left) and one of his guards (right). (Photo: Farhad Shami/Facebook).
An image shared on social media of an alleged Turkish drone strike near Kobani, Oct. 23, 2021. (Photo: Ciyager A/Twitter)
An aerial picture shows mourners gathering around coffins wrapped with the Iraqi flag during a mass funeral for Yazidi victims of the Islamic State (IS) group village of Kojo in Sinjar district ,Feb. 6, 2021. (Photo: Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP)
An image shared on social media of an alleged Turkish drone strike near Kobani, Oct. 23, 2021. (Photo: Ciyager A/Twitter)
An MQ-9 aircraft. (Photo: Isaac Brekken / AFP)
A Kurdistan Region Peshmerga fighter u8nloads a shipment of medical supplies in Erbil donated by the Coalition to Defeat ISIS, Oct. 21, 2021. (Photo: Peshmerga Ministry)