Syrian youth Sobhi, 15, holds an AK-47 assault rifles as he takes part in a military training at a former school turned into a “military academy” in Tallinn in Aleppo province, Syria, Jan. 23, 2013 (Photo: JM Lopez/AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right), meets with with Ib Petersen, Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), June 21, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
A woman (R) stays with her family’s help on the floor for 11 days after delivering a baby due to the lack of beds at Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekele, capital of the Tigray region, Ethiopia, June 20, 2021. (Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)
More than 400 tents were destroyed in a fire that broke out in the Sharya camp in Duhok province on June 4, 2021. The camp mostly hosts displaced Yezidis. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
A Syrian girl holds an oxygen mask over the face of an infant at a make-shift hospital following a reported gas attack on the town of Douma in the eastern Ghouta region on January 22, 2018. (Photo: Voice of America)
The UN has warned that the FSO Safer tanker, moored off the coast of Yemen with a million barrels of oil, could cause an environmental catastrophe if not repaired. (Photo: Conflict and Environment Observatory)
In this image taken from video, dozens of medical workers protest a decision to grant Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government a seat on the World Health Organization executive board, May 31, 2021, in Idlib, Syria. (Photo: AP)