A number of men hold lit torches as they climb on a mountain in the Kurdistan Region Akre town on the eve of Kurdish New Year Newroz, March 20, 2022. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
Hundreds of Kurdish people lit torches and walked up Mount Kale in celebration of the Kurdish new year in Akre, known as the capital of Newroz, on Sunday evening (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
A man stands on the balcony of a stone building in the Kurdish town of Akre, 500 kilometres north of Iraq's capital Baghdad, Sept. 14, 2022. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)