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Photo Feature: Arbil Citadel and the City Park in the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq

Published: 08 Mar 2016 - 12:00 am | Last Updated: 04 Nov 2021 - 09:21 am
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Arbil Citadel and the City Park in the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.

 

A man sits outside his shop near the Arbil Citadel. 

 

Iraqi Kurdish men sit near the citadel and the City Park

 

People walk at the City Park

 

Photographs by: Safin Hamed, AFP, taken on March 7, 2016. 

 

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