Vehicles drive past a billboard showing Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mohamed al-Halbussi, who is running in the local elections in December, along a main throughfare in Baghdad, Nov. 14, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraqi Speaker of Parliament Mohammad al-Halboosi (right) during his meeting with Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, July 26, 2023. (Photo: INA)
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad (third from right) walking along with Arab parliamentary leaders in Damascus, Feb. 26, 2023. (Photo: Syrian Arab News Agency)
Kurdistan Region Deputy Speaker of Parliament (top right) receives Iraqi Speaker of Parliament and the Sadrist delegation in Erbil, May 9, 2022. (Photo: Handout/Hemn Hawrami)
Iraqi Speaker of Parliament Mohammad Al-Halboosi during his meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, in Iran's capital Tehran, April 27, 2022. (Photo: Handout/Al-Halboosi Facebook account)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) and Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba (back) attending Russia-Turkey-Ukraine tripartite Foreign Ministers meeting in Antalya, March 10, 2022. (Photo: Cem Ozdel/Turkish Foreign Ministry/AFP)
