Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (left) walking alongside US Congressman Mark Takano (center) and Ambassador Alina L. Romanowski (right) in Erbil, Nov. 27, 2022. (Photo: KRG)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani paying his respects at the coffin of UK's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, lying in state at Westminster Hall, Sept. 18, 2022. (Photo: John Sibley/Pool/AFP)
A damaged inflatable small boat is pictured on the shore in Wimereux, northern France, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021 in Calais, northern France (Photo: AP /Michel Spingler, File)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with United Nations envoy to Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Nov. 24, 2022. (Photo: KRG)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia' Al-Sudani (left) during his meeting with his Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Nov. 23, 2022. (Photo: Iraqi Prime Minister Media Office)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia' Al-Sudani (right) walking alongside Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani in Baghdad, Nov. 22, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Wednesday chaired a meeting with Kurdish political parties in Erbil (Photo: Kurdistan Region’s Presidency)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with Denmark's Ambassador to Iraq Christian Thorning, Nov. 21, 2022. (Photo: KRG)
An Iraqi boy sells cotton candy by the Shatt Al-Arab River in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Nov. 14, 2020 (Photo: HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP via Getty Images)
