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Rare Heavy Snowfall Blankets Erbil After 6 Years - Iraq

Residents of Baharka district celebrate the first significant snowfall in six years, which has blanketed the outskirts of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Families and youth took to the streets to express joy, playing in the snow and taking commemorative photos just two days before the 2026 New Year. This rare weather event, the first of its kind since 2019, has transformed the landscape into a winter wonderland, bringing a festive atmosphere to the local community. December 29, 2025. Photo by Sabur Rashid/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rare Heavy Snowfall Blankets Erbil After 6 Years - Iraq

Residents of Baharka district celebrate the first significant snowfall in six years, which has blanketed the outskirts of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Families and youth took to the streets to express joy, playing in the snow and taking commemorative photos just two days before the 2026 New Year. This rare weather event, the first of its kind since 2019, has transformed the landscape into a winter wonderland, bringing a festive atmosphere to the local community. December 29, 2025. Photo by Sabur Rashid/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rare Heavy Snowfall Blankets Erbil After 6 Years - Iraq

Residents of Baharka district celebrate the first significant snowfall in six years, which has blanketed the outskirts of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Families and youth took to the streets to express joy, playing in the snow and taking commemorative photos just two days before the 2026 New Year. This rare weather event, the first of its kind since 2019, has transformed the landscape into a winter wonderland, bringing a festive atmosphere to the local community. December 29, 2025. Photo by Sabur Rashid/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rare Heavy Snowfall Blankets Erbil After 6 Years - Iraq

Residents of Baharka district celebrate the first significant snowfall in six years, which has blanketed the outskirts of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Families and youth took to the streets to express joy, playing in the snow and taking commemorative photos just two days before the 2026 New Year. This rare weather event, the first of its kind since 2019, has transformed the landscape into a winter wonderland, bringing a festive atmosphere to the local community. December 29, 2025. Photo by Sabur Rashid/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rare Heavy Snowfall Blankets Erbil After 6 Years - Iraq

Residents of Baharka district celebrate the first significant snowfall in six years, which has blanketed the outskirts of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Families and youth took to the streets to express joy, playing in the snow and taking commemorative photos just two days before the 2026 New Year. This rare weather event, the first of its kind since 2019, has transformed the landscape into a winter wonderland, bringing a festive atmosphere to the local community. December 29, 2025. Photo by Sabur Rashid/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rare Heavy Snowfall Blankets Erbil After 6 Years - Iraq

Residents of Baharka district celebrate the first significant snowfall in six years, which has blanketed the outskirts of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Families and youth took to the streets to express joy, playing in the snow and taking commemorative photos just two days before the 2026 New Year. This rare weather event, the first of its kind since 2019, has transformed the landscape into a winter wonderland, bringing a festive atmosphere to the local community. December 29, 2025. Photo by Sabur Rashid/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rare Heavy Snowfall Blankets Erbil After 6 Years - Iraq

Residents of Baharka district celebrate the first significant snowfall in six years, which has blanketed the outskirts of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Families and youth took to the streets to express joy, playing in the snow and taking commemorative photos just two days before the 2026 New Year. This rare weather event, the first of its kind since 2019, has transformed the landscape into a winter wonderland, bringing a festive atmosphere to the local community. December 29, 2025. Photo by Sabur Rashid/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rare Heavy Snowfall Blankets Erbil After 6 Years - Iraq

Residents of Baharka district celebrate the first significant snowfall in six years, which has blanketed the outskirts of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Families and youth took to the streets to express joy, playing in the snow and taking commemorative photos just two days before the 2026 New Year. This rare weather event, the first of its kind since 2019, has transformed the landscape into a winter wonderland, bringing a festive atmosphere to the local community. December 29, 2025. Photo by Sabur Rashid/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rare Heavy Snowfall Blankets Erbil After 6 Years - Iraq

Residents of Baharka district celebrate the first significant snowfall in six years, which has blanketed the outskirts of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Families and youth took to the streets to express joy, playing in the snow and taking commemorative photos just two days before the 2026 New Year. This rare weather event, the first of its kind since 2019, has transformed the landscape into a winter wonderland, bringing a festive atmosphere to the local community. December 29, 2025. Photo by Sabur Rashid/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rare Heavy Snowfall Blankets Erbil After 6 Years - Iraq

Residents of Baharka district celebrate the first significant snowfall in six years, which has blanketed the outskirts of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Families and youth took to the streets to express joy, playing in the snow and taking commemorative photos just two days before the 2026 New Year. This rare weather event, the first of its kind since 2019, has transformed the landscape into a winter wonderland, bringing a festive atmosphere to the local community. December 29, 2025. Photo by Sabur Rashid/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Kurdish troops stand guard against Islamic militants

ARBIL, Iraq - Kurdish Peshmerga security troops stand guard against Islamic State militants near Arbil in northern Iraq on Dec. 6, 2014.

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Iraqi refugees from militant attacks face intense winter

TOKYO, Japan - An Iraqi woman (front R), a Christian with her husband kidnapped by Islamic State extremists, washes the family's belongings on Dec. 8, 2014, outside their unit in a temporary shelter for refugees in Arbil, a major city in the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, while her 4-year-old son and in-laws look on. Many families forced from their homes amid violent attacks are faced with intense cold weather without adequate warm clothing and other winter supplies.

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Kurdistan foreign relations official interviewed

ARBIL, Iraq - Falah Mustafa Bakir, head of the Kurdistan regional government's foreign relations department, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Arbil in the northern Iraq region on Dec. 7, 2014.

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Kurd teaches baseball rules to friends

ARBIL, Iraq - A Kurdish staff member of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (R) explains baseball rules to his friends in June 2014 at a park in Arbil in the Kurdistan Region, northern Iraq, so as to make the sport more popular.

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Kurds enjoy playing baseball in Kurdistan Region

ARBIL, Iraq - Kurds play baseball in Arbil in the Kurdistan Region, northern Iraq, in June 2014.

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Kurdish baseball team in northern Iraq

ARBIL, Iraq - Members of a fledgling Kurdish baseball team pose for a picture in June 2014 in Arbil in the Kurdistan Region, northern Iraq.

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Japanese group's support activities in Iraq

ARBIL, Iraq - Shoko Enomoto (L) of Japan-Iraq Medical Network speaks to a girl at a hospital in Arbil in northern Iraq's Kurdistan autonomous region on June 20, 2014.

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Girl treated at hospital in Iraq

ARBIL, Iraq - A girl is treated at a hospital in Arbil in northern Iraq's Kurdistan autonomous region on June 18, 2014.

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Kurdistan regional gov't official

ARBIL, Iraq - Falah Mustafa Bakir, head of the foreign relations department of the Kurdistan regional government, is interviewed by Kyodo News in Arbil, northern Iraq, on June 16, 2014. Bakir said the Kurds will not help Iraqi forces to combat Sunni insurgents, indicating Kurdish armed fighters will give priority to defending their region.

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Kurdish leader warns of Iraq disunity if referendum delayed long

ARBIL, Iraq - Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Arbil, Iraq.

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Kurdistan foreign chief says holistic approach needed to retake Mosul

Falah Mustafa, foreign affairs chief of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Arbil on June 8, 2015. He said a holistic approach covering not only military but political, economic and humanitarian aspects would be necessary to recapture the country's second largest city of Mosul in the north, occupied by the Islamic State group of militants. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hairdresser opens shop in shelter for Iraqi refugees

A hairdresser (L) attends to a customer at his makeshift shop in a temporary shelter in Arbil, northern Iraq, for refugees fleeing attacks by Islamic State extremists. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Iraqi refugee shows arm broken by Islamic State militants

An Iraqi man living in a temporary shelter for refugees in Arbil, northern Iraq, after fleeing his Christian village shows on March 9, 2015, his twisted left arm, broken by Islamic State militants who attacked his hometown. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Iraqi refugee wishes for return of infant daughter taken by militants

An Iraqi woman living in a temporary shelter for refugees in Arbil, a major city in the Kurdish region in northern Iraq, gazes on March 9, 2015, at a photo of her 3-year-old daughter who was taken away by Islamic State extremists from their Christian village near Mosul. The woman said she pleaded for her daughter to be returned but was threatened at gunpoint and told to leave. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kurdish troops stand guard against Islamic militants

ARBIL, Iraq - Kurdish Peshmerga security troops stand guard against Islamic State militants near Arbil in northern Iraq on Dec. 6, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Kurds enjoy playing baseball in Kurdistan Region

ARBIL, Iraq - Kurds play baseball in Arbil in the Kurdistan Region, northern Iraq, in June 2014. (Kyodo)

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Kurdish baseball team in northern Iraq

ARBIL, Iraq - Members of a fledgling Kurdish baseball team pose for a picture in June 2014 in Arbil in the Kurdistan Region, northern Iraq. (Kyodo)

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Japanese group's support activities in Iraq

ARBIL, Iraq - Shoko Enomoto (L) of Japan-Iraq Medical Network speaks to a girl at a hospital in Arbil in northern Iraq's Kurdistan autonomous region on June 20, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Girl treated at hospital in Iraq

ARBIL, Iraq - A girl is treated at a hospital in Arbil in northern Iraq's Kurdistan autonomous region on June 18, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Kurdistan regional gov't official

ARBIL, Iraq - Falah Mustafa Bakir, head of the foreign relations department of the Kurdistan regional government, is interviewed by Kyodo News in Arbil, northern Iraq, on June 16, 2014. Bakir said the Kurds will not help Iraqi forces to combat Sunni insurgents, indicating Kurdish armed fighters will give priority to defending their region. (Kyodo)