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)
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) President Masoud Barzani in meeting with British Ambassador to Iraq Mark Bryson-Richardson in Erbil, June 30, 2022 (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with British Ambassador to Iraq Mark Richard-Bryanson in Erbil, June 30, 2022 (Photo: KRG)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani in meeting with Major General John Brennan, commander of the CJTF-OIR, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, June 28, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency Media Office)
Students and other demonstrators hold national flags during a protest to condemn a pro-Iran militia attack on Najaf protesters, in Tahrir Square, Baghdad, Iraq, Feb. 6, 2020. (Photo: Khalid Mohammed/AP)