Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani in meeting with Marshal Sammy Sampson, Britain's top military adviser for Middle East and North Africa, Nov. 8, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
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)