A picture taken on August 17, 2015 shows buildings that were damaged during fighting between Kurdish Peshmerga forces and ISIS militants in the town of Sinjar. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
A tractor ploughs a parcel of agricultural land, on the outskirts of the town of Tel Keppe (Tel Kaif) north of the city of Mosul in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh, Oct. 26, 2021. (Photo: Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP)
Turkish and Iraqi militaries execute a joint military exercise in Silopi, Sirnak on the Turkish side of their shared border following the 2017 Kurdistan independence referendum. (Photo: Emrah Oprukcu/NurPhoto)
Veterinarian Karrar Ibrahim Hindi examines a sick buffalo, at a farm in the marshes of Iraq's southern district of Chibayish in Dhi Qar province, March 26, 2022. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
A combination of pictures shows Iraq's leading presidential candidates Rebar Ahmed (L) and Barham Salih (R) (Photo: Ludovic Marin Kurdistan Regional Government/AFP/File)