L to R: French CG Yann Braem; Australia's Amb. Glenn Miles; Austria's Amb. to Iraq, Andrea Nasi; and Qatrar CG Hussain Bin Ali Al-Fadala. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Hundreds of people carrying fiery torches climb up the Kale mountaintop, located in Akre, a town in Kurdistan Region's Duhok province popularly referred to as the capital of Newroz, the Kurdish New Year. (Photo: Wladimir van Wilgenburg)
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)
