Rawan Salim, an 18-year-old activist, poses for a picture during an interview in the northeastern city of Sulaymaniyah in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, April 2, 2021. (Photo: Shwan Mohammed / AFP)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken participates in the virtual third round of the US-Iraq Strategic Dialogue from Washington, April 7, 2021. (Photo: US State Department)
This tour is the third of its kind between the two countries, as the first was held last June, while the second was held in August 2020. (Photo: Archive)
Pope Francis (right) tours ruins of the Syriac Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception (al-Tahira-l-Kubra), in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, March 7, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Vincenzo Pinto)
French President Emmanuel Macron (R) poses with President of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani prior to a working lunch at the Elysee Palace in Paris, March 30, 2021. (Photo: Ludovic Marin/AFP)
Iraqi engineer Hassanein Mohsen speaks as he sits with his family at home in the central holy shrine city of Karbala, Dec. 12, 2020. (Photo: Mohammed Sawaf / AFP)