US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about US policy towards China during an event hosted by the Asia Society Policy Institute at George Washington University in Washington, DC, on May 26, 2022 (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with the head of UNAMI Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Oct. 31, 2022. (Photo: KRG)
The sun sets over the Shatt al-Arab waterway, formed at the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in Iraq's southern city of Basra, Oct. 30, 2022. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammad Shia' Al-Sudani (right) during his meeting with Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Baghdad Abdul Aziz Al-Shamari, Oct. 29, 2022. (Photo: Media Office of Iraqi Prime Minister)
People and security forces are standing inside the soccer stadium in east of Baghdad, in the aftermath of a fuel tanker explosion, Oct. 29, 2022. (Photo: Submitted to Kurdistan 24)
Members of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitary forces march in a symbolic funerary parade in the capital Baghdad, June 29, 2021. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)
