A man is seen walking with a stick in the main square around Erbil's Citadel in the capital of the Kurdistan Region, April 15, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
Displaced Yazidis cast their votes for the parliamentary elections at a camp in the Sharya area, some 15 kilometres from the northern city of Dohuk in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, on October 8, 2021. (Photo: Ismael ADNAN/AFP)
Members of Kurdish Peshmerga security forces cast their votes as he takes part in early voting for the parliamentary elections in Iraq's northern city of Sulaimani in the autonomous Kurdish region on October 8, 2021. (Photo: Shwan MOHAMMED/
Members of Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga security forces take part in early voting for the parliamentary elections in Erbil, Oct. 8, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
Members of Zeravani forces are pictured awaiting the opening of voting centers in the Kurdistan Region's capital Erbil, Oct. 8, 2021. (Photo: Renas A. Saeed / Kurdistan 24)
Supporters of Iraq's Fatah alliance -- which held the second-biggest bloc in parliament -- attend an election rally in Baghdad (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Officials of Iraq's electoral commission undergo a polling day simulation to test run its systems ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections, in Baghdad, on Sept. 22, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)