People lift the regional flag during a rally in Dohuk city in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on September 5, 2023, to protest unpaid salaries for civil servants for which they hold the Baghdad federal government responsible, and in support of Kurds in Kirkuk. The rally comes amid high tensions following the September 2 deadly demonstrations in the multi-ethnic northern city of Kirkuk, disputed between Iraqi Kurdistan and Baghdad, as rival protests between Kurdish residents on one side and Turkmen and Arabs on the other, descended into deadly unrest and led to the deaths of four people. (Photo by Ismael ADNAN / AFP)