Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor to the President, speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, July 11, 2022. (Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP)
Ahmed Zawiti (left), the chief executive officer of Kurdistan 24 Company for Media and Research, poses for a photo with Al-Jazeera Media Institute's director, Eman Al-Amri, in the Qatari capital Doha, Sept. 27, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Smoke billows on the horizon outside the Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah (Slemani), where the bases of several Iranian opposition groups are located, September 28, 2022. (AFP)
Smoke billows as an ambulance drives in the area of Zargwez, 15 kms outside the Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah, where several exiled left-wing Iranian Kurdish parties maintain offices, Sept. 28, 2022. (Photo: Shwan Mohammed/AFP)
Smoke billows on the horizon in the village of Altrun Kupri, in the Sherawa region, south of Arbil in Iraq's Kurdistan, where a base of the Kurdistan Freedom Party is located, Sept. 28, 2022. (Photo: Shwan Nawzad/AFP)