Iraqi and Turkish soldiers stand next to tanks carrying Turkish and Iraqi flags during a joint military exercise near the Turkish-Iraqi border at Silopi district in Sirnak, September 26, 2017. (Photo: AFP)
Mourners gather around as a coffin is buried a coffin during a a mass funeral for Yezidi (Ezidi) victims of ISIS in the disputed Iraqi district of Sinjar (Shingal), Feb. 6, 2021. (Photo: Zaid al-Obeidi/AFP)
Employees of Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission conduct a partial manual recount of votes for the October 10 parliamentary elections, in Baghdad, Nov. 23, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Jalil Adnan Khalaf, the head of Iraq's electoral commission, reads official results of the national parliamentary vote held in October, Nov. 30, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
An unexploded bomb is being studied after it was dropped on the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi's residence in Baghdad. (Photo: Iraqi Government)
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the head of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) delivers a speech at UKH-organized confernece on gender equality, Nov. 28, 2021. (Photo: UNAMI)
Masoud Barzani, President of Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), in meeting with the United Nations Secretary General Special Representative (SRSG) Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert in Erbil, Nov. 27, 2021. (Photo: KDP)