Düzen Tekkal (center) posed with her parents after receiving the German Order of Merit award for her contributions to German society in 2021 (Photo: Archive/Düzen Tekkal/Twitter).
A firefighter checks the damage in an event hall in Qaraqosh, also known as Hamdaniya, after a fire broke out during a wedding, killing at least 100 people and injuring more than 150, Sept. 27, 2023. (Photo: Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (second from right) during his visit to the Hamdaniya fire victims at Erbil Emergency Hospital, Sept. 30, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with the head of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Sept. 30, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
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)
