A Syrian man displays bread and traditional sweets for sale in Damascus' Midan neighborhood as people shop prior to breaking their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on June 21, 2016. (Photo: Louai Beshara / AFP)
A technician controls an electric switch board connecting homes to privately-owned electricity generators in a suburb of Iraq's capital Baghdad, June 30, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
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)
