A view of the ice caps of the Sakran Mountains in the Choman District, whose ice has melted and diminished in size over the past few decades. (Photo: AP)
A picture shows the receding waterline of the Habbaniyah lake affected by severe drought in Iraq's Anbar province, August 11, 2023. (Photo: Murtadha Ridha/AFP)
Iraqi youths swim in the Shatt al-Arab waterway at the end of a hot summer day in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Aug. 11, 2023. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
A dry fish farms in the village of Albu Mustafa in Hilla , following a crack down by the Iraqi government on unauthorised ponds in an effort to meet the country's water demands, July 6, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
An Iraqi dives into the waters of the Tigris river in Baghdad on July 12, 2023, as temperatures soared past 45 degrees Celsius. (Photo: Ahmed AL-Rubay/ AFP)
