German tourists listening to a Kurdish man playing on Daf (a traditional middle eastern instrument), in Koya, Kudistan region, Apr. 19. 2025. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
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)