pedestrian struggles to breathe as he walks along the side of a road through low visibility conditions due to a massive dust storm in Iraq's central city of Najaf on April 14, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
An aerial picture shows agricultural land surrounding effluents of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet, in Iraq's southern city of Basra, on June 12, 2023. (Photo: AFP)
An Iraqi farmer inspects the water level near his land in Iraq's southern port city of al-Faw, 90 kilometres south of Basra near the Shatt al-Arab and the Gulf on August 17, 2020. (Photo: AFP)