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KRG Foreign Relations head Safeen Dizayee and Romanian consular official Horia Mihail Petrescu at an event in Erbil, Dec. 8, 2021.[Photo: Safeen Dizayee/Twitter)
An aerial view of the steel factory construction site in Erbil. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Nalin Mohammad was born after her father, a Peshmerga, was killed by ISIS, Dec. 9, 2021. (Photo: Renas Ali/Kurdistan24)
KRG Minister of Agriculture Begard Talabani in a press conference at Kurdistan Parliament, Dec. 7, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Mohammad hands a barbell to his son at a gym in Raparin, Nov. 30, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Book clubs have become much more common in Erbil and the Kurdistan Region over the past year. (Photo: Goran Sabah Ghafour)
Yezidis mourn at a grave of a member of their community killed in the genocide perpetrated by ISIS, Dec. 9, 2021. (Photo: Darman Ba'adri/Kurdistan 24)
The US announced new sanctions on Tuesday that included several against Iranian individuals or government entities. (Photo: Getty Images)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz takes the oath from President of the Bundestag in Berlin, Dec. 8, 2021. (AFP)
The flag of Kurdistan flies over an oil production facility in the autonomous Kurdistan Region. (Photo: Archive)
A screen grab from an online symposium for increasing UAE investment in the Kurdistan Region, Dec. 7, 2021. (Photo: UAE Consulate General in Erbil)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani delivering a speech at an event marking 100 years since the first theater performance in Erbil, Dec. 8, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (middle) chairs a weekly session of the KRG's Council of Ministers in Erbil, Dec. 1, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
Members of Kurdistan Region's special forces during the operation against ISIS in Garmiyan area, Dec. 8, 2021. (Harem Jaff/Kurdistan 24)
PM Masrour Barzani (right) receives his Iraqi counterpart Mustafa al-Kadhimi at Erbil International Airport early on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. (Photo: Handout/KRG)
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (left) and Kurdistan Region PM Masrour Barzani. (Photos: DoD, KRG)