Peshtiwan Sadiq (center), the Kurdistan Region's Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs, speaks to reporters in Erbil, May 11, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
A nurse holds a used vial of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in the Kindi Hospital in Iraq's capital Baghdad, April 14, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye / AFP)
An aerial picture shows mourners gathering around coffins during a mass funeral for Yazidi victims of the Islamic State (IS) group village of Kojo in Sinjar distric, Feb. 6, 2021. (Photo: Zaid al-Obeidi/AFP)
A Syrian woman and her child sit by their belongings awaiting departure as another group of families is released from the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp outside the northern Syrian city of Hasakah, March 18, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Delil Souleiman)
A member of the Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga forces on Pirde Front is pictured while receiving his first dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, May 10, 2021. (Photo: Hoshmand Sadiq / Kurdistan 24)
Dutch Consul General in Erbil Hans Akerboom (L) and KRG’s Head of the Foreign Relations Department Safeen Dizayee (C), talk to media at inauguration of new bike path in Erbil, May 07, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24/Wladimir van Wilgenburg)
