Kurdistan Region PM Masrour Barzani discusses the migrant crisis with Nizar Khair-Allah, an official from the Iraqi foreign ministry, Dec. 8, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
Iraq's PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi gets briefed by Sirwan Barzani, a top Peshmerga commander, on the Makhmour-Gwer frontline, Dec. 8, 2021. (Photo: Handout/Iraqi Government)
Ministry of Peshmerga Secretary-General Lieutenant Colonel Jabar Yawar meeting with Iraqi Army commanders. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Peshmerga Ministry)
A picture shows bystanders near a destroyed car in the southern Iraqi city of Basra after at least four civilians were killed and four more wounded in a motorcycle bombing near a hospital, Dec. 7, 2021. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
Planned under former dictator Saddam Hussein, the Al-Rahman Mosque in Baghdad was meant to be among the largest in the Middle East, but was never completed. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
President Masoud Barzani in meeting with the leader of the Sunni al-Azim alliance Khamis al-Khanjar, in Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Dec. 4, 2021. (Photo: KDP)
