A number of men hold lit torches as they climb on a mountain in the Kurdistan Region Akre town on the eve of Kurdish New Year Newroz, March 20, 2022. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
Iraqi security delegation is pictured in Baghdad before their arrival in the Kurdistan Region capital Erbil, March 20, 2022. (Photo: Qasim Al-Araji/Facebook)
An Iraqi man sells nuts in the old bazaar in Erbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, on February 10, 2021. (Photo: Safin Ahmed/AFP)