Lebanese Kurds take part in a protest near the European Commission offices in Beirut on January 28th, 2018, against the ongoing Turkish military campaign in the Kurdish-held Syrian enclave of Afrin.
A member of the Iraqi forces covers his ears as he fires a mortar against Kurdish Peshmerga positions near the Turkish and Syrian borders in the Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region on October 26th, 2017.
Syrian Kurds wave the Kurdish flag in the Syrian city of Qamishli on September 27th, 2017, during a gathering in support of the independence referendum in Iraq's northern Kurdish region.