Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein (right) talking with his Belgian counterpart Sophie Wilmès in New York on Sept. 26, 2021. (Photo: Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Shahab Qassem Hassan, the leader of a team of fighters previously affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), explains they have joined a Peshmerga regiment in the Shingal area. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
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)
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is in New York for the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, met with President Barham Salih of Iraq at the Turkevi Center. (Photo: Presidency of the Republic of Turkey)
Security officials from the Kurdistan Region's ministry of Peshmerga and their Iraqi counterparts at the Joint Operation Command in Baghdad. (Photo: Iraqi government)
Mesopotamian clay cones bearing cuneiform inscriptions are displayed during a handover ceremony of a trove of looted Iraqi antiquities returned by the United States, August 3, 2021. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)
