Iraqi President Abdul Rasheed Latif speaking during the MEPS22 at the American University of Kurdistan (AUK) in Duhok province, Nov. 17, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
A view of a dried up body of a dead fish on drying earth in the Chibayesh marshland in Iraq's southern Ahwar area, June 20, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
The sun sets over the Shatt al-Arab waterway, formed at the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in Iraq's southern city of Basra, Oct. 30, 2022. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
Iraqi fisherman Naim Haddad, 40, stands barefoot on his boat at sunset on Shatt al-Arab, the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that empties into the Gulf, near the city of Basrah in southern Iraq, Feb. 12, 2022. (Photo: Ayman He
An aerial view of a fishing boat coasting through a canal in Iraq's receding southern marshes of Chibayish in Dhi Qar province, August 23, 2022. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
A man stands by fans spraying air mixed with water vapour deployed by donors to cool down pedestrians along a street in Iraq's capital Baghdad, June 30, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraqi youths react to the heat as they wait to buy ice blocks at a factory in Sadr City, east of the capital Baghdad, amid power outages and soaring temperatures, July 2, 2021. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
A Kurdish farmer sows seeds in a field at a farm in the Rania district, near the Dukan Dam in the Kurdistan Region's Sulaimani province, July 2, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)