IRAQ. Neaar Sulaymaniya. 2023. Kawsar Fattahi teaches Komala ideology to new recruits at a base near Sulaymaniya. Komala is an anti-imperialist Iranian-Kurdish nationalist party based in Northern Iraq. Founded in 1969, it is ideologically Marxist-Leninist. The group has around 1000 members, and is based near Sulaymaniya. In 2022, the Komala base was attacked by missiles and drones from the Iranian regime after uprisings began in Iran following the killing of Kurdish Iranian woman Masa Jina Amini.