Saudi Arabia’s deputy foreign minister, Waleed Al-Khuraiji (right), greeting the Iraqi prominent leader Ammar Al-Hakim at King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah, August 17, 2022. (Photo: Saudi Press Agency)
Representatives of political parties convening at Iraqi Council of Ministers building in Baghdad for a "national dialogue" to discuss the country's political crisis, August 17, 2022. (Photo: Iraqi PM Media Office)
Members of Iraq's Rapid Intervention forces driving in a village in the Hawi al-Azim area, in the eastern Diyala province on Jan. 24, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Mourners react as they carry coffins during a mass funeral for Yazidi victims of the Islamic State (IS) group whose remains were found in a mass grave, in the northern Iraqi village of Kojo in Sinjar district, Dec. 9, 2021. (Photo: Zaid Al-
Prime Minister Masrour Barzani speaks during a KDP campaign rally for the Iraqi elections in the kurdistan Region's Erbil, Oct. 5, 2021. (Photo: Sabr Dri)
A seized cache of captagon tablets hidden in tea boxes to be smuggled, presented at a press conference at the headquarters of the Internal Security Forces in Lebanon's capital Beirut. (Photo: Anwar Amro/AFP)
A delegation from the Shiite Coordinating Framework (SCF) led by Hadi al-Amiri, head of the Badr Organization, arriving in Kurdistan Region to meet with President Masoud Barzani, August 14, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)