German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (C), SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi (L), Ilham Ahmed, Co-Chair of the Foreign Relations Department of the Autonomous Administration (R). (Photo: SDF press)
Masrour Barzani, Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region (CR), and Osama Ibrahim Naffa, the Hungarian Ambassador to Iraq (CL), in Erbil, Kurdistan Region, on Feb. 15, 2025. (Photo: KRG)
Iraqi soldiers stand solemnly beside coffins draped with the Iraqi flag and adorned with red flowers during a ceremonial exchange of war remains with Iran at the Shalamcheh border crossing, Feb. 15, 2026. (INA)
The G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the EU, Feb. 14, 2026. (AFP)
President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (R) listening to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in Abu Dhabi, Feb. 9, 2026. (AFP)
Nechirvan Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Region (R), during his meeting Syrian FM Asaad Shaibani, Feb. 14, 2026. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C), SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi (R), Ilham Ahmed, Co-Chair of the Foreign Relations Department of the Autonomous Administration (L). (Photo: Abdi's X)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (R), Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (L), in Munich, on Feb. 14, 2025. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (3rd R), and U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (3rd L), in Munich, on Feb. 14, 2025. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Iraqi security forces lead suspected Islamic State militants for questioning, after they were transferred from Syria to Iraq, at Al-Karkh Central Prison in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (AP)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (R), Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican Foreign Minister, in Munich, on Feb. 14, 2025. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (R), Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Dick Schoof, in Munich, on Feb. 14, 2025. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C), SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi (R), Ilham Ahmed, Co-Chair of the Foreign Relations Department of the DAANES (L). (Graphic: Kurdistan24)
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C), SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi (R), Ilham Ahmed, Co-Chair of the Foreign Relations Department of the Autonomous Administration (L). (Photo: Abdi's X)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (2nd L), Syrian FM Asaad al-Shibani (3rd R), and Mazloum Abdi, Commander of the SDF (2nd R) meet on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, on Feb. 13, 2026 in Munich. (Photo: SANA)
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (R) receiving International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi (L) at the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Tehran on Apr. 16, 2025. (AFP)
Nechirvan Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Region (L), and Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan (R), during his meeting with Jonathan Powell, National Security Adviser of the United Kingdom, Feb. 13, 2026. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Infographic with a map showing the location of detention camps for relatives of jihadists and prisons for jihadists in northern Syria, based on data collected by ISW between May 2024 and Jan. 2026. (AFP)
Nechirvan Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Region (right), during his meeting with Jonathan Powell, National Security Adviser of the United Kingdom, Feb. 13, 2026. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Nechirvan Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Region (right), during his meeting with Nawaf Salam, Prime Minister of Lebanon, Feb. 13, 2026. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
