Military vehicles belonging to the Peshmerga forces are pictured during the joint operations with their Iraqi counterparts in Kifri district, June 6, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Smoke rises from an alleged PKK vehicle in which the mayor of the Kurdistan Region's district of Qaladza said four of the group's fighters were killed by Turkish bombradment, June 13, 2021. (Photo: Social media)
Iraqi forces on June 11, 2021 said they seized rockets and launchpads ready to fire at the Balad airbase, north of Baghdad. (Photo: Iraq Security Media Cell)
A member of the Iraqi security forces inspects the damage in the capital Baghdad after a volley of rockets slammed into the Iraqi capital, November 18, 2020. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
Peshmerga forces are pictured during a ceremony in which US-donated military equipment and vehicles were handed over to the Kurdish forces in Erbil, Nov. 10, 2020. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
Peshmerga Fero Mirza Osman and Badal Amin Osman disappeared after they were stopped at a PKK checkpoint in Sinjar on June 7, 2021, their commander said. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Ayazudin Hilal, a former Afghan interpreter for the US, holds his medal during an interview in Kabul, Afghanistan on April 30, 2021. (Photo: Mariam Zuhaib/AP)
