Deputy Assistant Secretary Jennifer Gavito and Consul General Robert Palladino joined Erbil’s Governor, Umed Khoshnaw, to announce additional U.S. funding for further renovations of the Hamam and to create a children’s Center at the Erbil Citadel. U.S. funding to the Erbil Citadel now totals $1.5 million. The U.S. continues to expand opportunities for future partnership and collaboration and works with our Kurdish friends to preserve valuable archeological sites in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.