The Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani delivers a speech at MEPS21 at the American University of Kurdistan in Duhok, Nov. 16, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Iraqi President Barham Salih delivers a speech at the Middle East Peace and Security Forum (MEPS21) in the American University of Kurdistan in Duhok, Nov. 16, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Iraqi farmers in the northern Plains of Nineveh, once the breadbasket of Iraq, are abandoning their land pushed out by record low rainfall, drought and climate change. (Photo: Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP)