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)