members of Iraq's Rapid Intervention forces driving in a village in the Hawi al-Azim area, in the eastern Diyala province, Jan. 24, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani in meeting with the US Ambassador to Iraq, Alina L. Romanowski, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, July 5, 2022. (Photo: KRG)
Lt. Gen. Issa Ozeir, the Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Peshmerga, shaking hands with the Iraqi Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Yarallah in the disputed district of Makhmour, Erbil, July 5, 2022. (Photo: Ministry of Peshmerga)
Iraqis walk past Kurdish flags in central Kirkuk on the eve of an independence referendum for the autonomous region of Kurdistan, September 24, 2017. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraq’s Deputy PM and Minister of Finance Ali Allawi attends the first meeting of the IECG hosted by the UK’s Minister for the Middle East & North Africa James Cleverly, London, UK, October 22, 2020. (Photo: Iraqi government)
A view of a dried up body of a dead fish on drying earth in the Chibayesh marshland in Iraq's southern Ahwar area, June 20, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
