Security officials from the Kurdistan Region's Peshmerga ministry with their Iraqi counterparts at the Joint Operation Command in Baghdad in 2020. (Photo: Iraqi government)
A man stands on February 16, 2021 near a fence with graffiti reading in Kurdish "long live Kurdistan", at the scene of a rocket attack targeting Arbil the previous night, Feb. 16, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed / AFP)