German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center in red, addresses the Bundestag ahead of a European Union summit in Berlin, Germany, June 18, 2020. (Photo: Markus Schreiber / AP)
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)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (R) met UK Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi in London on Sept. 17, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan Presidency Office)
Karzan Sabah (left), his wife Shahen Qasm, and their infant daughter Lena were killed in a road accident in Galway, Ireland, on Aug. 19, 2021. (Photo: Kurdish Irish Society)
Police patrol alongside a steel wall at Evros river, near the village of Poros, at the Greek-Turkish border, Greece, May 21, 2021. (Photo: Giannis Papanikos/AP)
A Taliban fighter stands guard at the entrance of the police headquarters in Ghazni on August 12, 2021, as Taliban move closer to Afghan capital after taking Ghazni city. (Photo: AFP)
