A homeless woman drinks water from a garbage dumpster in Beirut, Lebanon, July 23, 2020. The World Bank said in June 2020 Lebanon’s economic crisis is likely the worst in the world in 150 years. (Photo: Hassan Ammar/AP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right), Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, with Mustafa Ghalib Mukhif, Governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, June 19, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
In this April 20, 2017 file photo, Emirates planes are parked at the Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo: Kamran Jebreili/AP)
Customers look at rugs at a hand crafts store at Iran Mall shopping center in Tehran, June 9, 2021. Iranians point to the economy as the major issue facing it ahead of its June 18 presidential election. (Photo: Vahid Salemi/AP)
In 2020, the KRG established an agricultural program that includes several phases, the first of which will oversee 100,000 tons of wheat to be marketed by state companies and others working with them. (Photo: Archive)