Protests have taken place in the wake of an activist being handed a three-year jail term for purportedly insulting an ex-paramilitary group (Photo: Asaad NIAZI / AFP)
Iraqi border forces stand guard outside a mountain tourist spot which was hit with artillery bombardment in the Zakho district village of Parakh in the north of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, July 22, 2022. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
Head of the United Nations Investigative Team to promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Daesh/ISIL (UNITAD) Christian Ritscher, speaks during an interview at his offices in Baghdad, Nov. 14, 2022. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)
Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein (left) shaking hands with his counterpart Ayman Safadi, Dec. 6, 2022. (Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq)
Iranian Kurds participate in a march in a park of Sulaimani against the killing of Mahsa Amini, a woman in Iran who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", Sept. 19, 2022. (Photo: shwan Mohammed/AFP)
Bangin Reakni (right), the newly approved minister of Iraqi construction and housing. Nizar Amedi (left) is the new Iraqi Minister of Environment. (Photo: Combined by Kurdistan 24)
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (right) during his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia' Al-Sudani, Nov. 29, 2022. (Photo: Iraqi Prime Minister's Media Office)
