Shahab Qassem Hassan, the leader of a team of fighters previously affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), explains they have joined a Peshmerga regiment in the Shingal area. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Turkish and Iraqi militaries execute a joint military exercise in Silopi, Sirnak on the Turkish side of their shared border following the 2017 Kurdistan independence referendum. (Photo: Emrah Oprukcu/NurPhoto)
Mourners gather around as a coffin is buried a coffin during a a mass funeral for Yezidi victims of the Islamic State group in the northern Iraqi village of Kocho in Sinjar district, on February 6, 2021. (Photo: Zaid al-Obeidi/AFP)
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