A picture shows a storage facility of oil giant ADNOC in the Msaffah industrial district in the Emiarti capital Abu Dhabi on January 17, 2022. (Photo: AFP)
A boy looks at portraits displayed on a fence by the Social Association of Afghan Justice Seekers (SAAJS) of Afghan nationals who died in previous wars in Afghanistan, in Kabul on January 9, 2022. (Photo: Mohd RASFAN / AFP)
a view of the Emirati-flagged vessel "Rwabee" in the Red Sea seized by Yemen's Huthi rebels and reportedly carrying Saudi military equipment, Jan. 3, 2022. (Photo: AFP Photo/Ho/Al-Huthi Group Media Office)
Iranian ambassador Hassan Eyrlou attends a vigil in Sanaa to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, Jan. 2, 2021. (Photo: Mohammed Huwais/AFP)
Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, speaks during the first meeting of national security secretaries in the Iranian capital Tehran on September 26, 2018. (Photo: Atta Kenare / AFP)
Lebanon's Information Minister George Kordahi speaks during a press conference to announce his resignation at the Ministry of Information in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. (Photo: Bilal Hussein / AP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani speaks to reporters on the sidelines of IISS Manama Dialogue 2021 in Bahrain on Nov. 21, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani in meeting with Greece’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias on the sidelines of Manama Dialogue 2021. Nov. 21, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
PM Barzani during his meeting with UAE Minister of State Khalifa Shaheen Almararz on the sidelines of IISSMD21 in Bahrain’s capital Manama, Nov. 21, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani meeting with UK National Security Adviser Stephen Lovegrove on the sidelines of IISS Manama Dialogue 2021 in the Bahrain capital on Nov. 19, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
Safeen Dizazyee, the KRG head of department of foreign relations, speaks to Kurdistan 24 in Bahrain's capital Manama on the sidelines of IISS Manama Dialogue 2021, Nov. 19, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)