Iraq
The State Department building in Washington, DC. (Photo: AFP)
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) President Masoud Barzani (right) during his meeting US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara A. Leaf in Erbil, Sept. 7, 2022. (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)
The Iraqi Federal Judicial Authority Headquarters, Baghdad. (Photo: The Iraqi Supreme Federal Court Website)
Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr protest in the capital Baghdad's Green Zone, on August 29, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraq's top executive powers meet with political forces to work towards holding early elections (Photo: IRAQI PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS OFFICE/AFP).
Barbara Leaf, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. (Photo: US State Department website)
Turkish soldiers during a military operation in Iraq. (Photo: Anadolu Agency)
Tuktuks are pictured parked in Baghdad's Green Zone, August 30, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Chief of IOM Iraq mission, George Gigauri, speaks to Kurdistan 24 during a virtual interview, August 24, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
The Iraqi Speaker of Parliament Mohammad Al-Halboosi. (Photo: AFP)
Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani. (Photo: Al-Sistani's office)
Mohammed Shiya Al-Sudani, leading member of the State of Law coalition. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova, Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi attends a parade by members of the Iranian-backed Hashed al-Shaabi forces celebrating the 7th anniversary of their founding in Diyala province, June 26, 2021. (Photo: AFP Photo / HO/ Hashed al-Shaabi
Flare stacks burn at the Nahr Bin Omar field, north of the southern Iraqi port of Basra, Jan. 21, 2021. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
The UN Security Council holds a meeting on the Middle East on Nov. 20, 2019, at United Nations headquarters. (Photo: Mary Altaffer / AP)