Kurdistan Region Minister of Peshmerga Affairs Shorsh Ismail (center) poses with officials from the US-led Coalition to Defeat ISIS, including Colonel Todd Burroughs (left). (Photo: CJTFOIR)
Taliban Badri special force fighters arrive at the airport in Kabul on August 31, 2021, after the US has pulled all its troops out of the country. (Photo: Wakil Kohsar/AFP)
French President Emmanuel Macron tours the Al-Nuri Mosque in Iraq's second city of Mosul, in the northern Nineveh province, August 29, 2021. (Photo: Ludovic Marin/AFP)
French President Emmanuel Macron (C-R) is welcomed upon his arrival at the Our Lady of the Hour Church in Iraq's second city of Mosul, August 29, 2021. (Photo: Ludovic/AFP)
An amputee uses crutches to walk in a debris-strewn street in the old neighborhood of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Nov. 7, 2018. (Photo: Zaid al-Obeidi/AFP)
French President Emmanuel Macron (Left), with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi during a press conference, August 28, 2021. (Photo: Prime Minister's Media Office)