Environment
Rhim gazelles graze at the Sawa wildlife reserve in the desert of Samawa in Iraq's southern province of al-Muthanna, June 8, 2022 (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
Aldiers and Afghan Red Crescent Society officials near a helicopter at an earthquake hit area in Afghanistan's Gayan district, Paktika province, June 22, 2022. (Photo: AFP/ Bakhtar News Agency)
A man carries a block of ice at his stall in Iraq's southern city of Basra, June 11, 2022. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
A man walks along a road during a sand storm in Iraq's southern port city of Basra, March 4, 2022. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
Rhim gazelles died of malnutrition and lack of care at the facility in Iraq's southern province of al-Muthanna, May 27, 2022. (Photo: Sawa Reserve/AFP)
Kani Bast (“frozen waterfall”) is the highest waterfall in the Kurdistan Region (Photo: Azad Ali)
Water borehole equipment drilling a well in Erbil's Badawa neighborhood, August 14, 2021 (Photo: Rebaz Siyan/Kurdistan 24)
An Iraqi cleaner works to clean the street during a severe dust storm in the Iraqi capital Baghdad May 1, 2022 (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Bokodyan Pond on the Sakran Mountain in Erbil's Choman district (Photo: Goran Sabah Ghafour)
The Kurdistan Region’s ‘Spring of Snakes’, known locally as Kani Maran, on the Soran-Erbil Highway (Photo: Goran Sabah Ghafour)
A scenic view of mountainous terrain in the Kurdistan Region's Barzan. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Kurdistan Region's Council of Ministers. (Photo: KRG)
An aerial view shows a pond remaining at the dried-up Sawa Lake in Iraq's southern province of al-Muthanna, April 19, 2022. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
A man walks along a road during a sand storm in Iraq's southern port city of Basra, March 4, 2022. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzan (center) chairs a meeting of the municipality and tourism ministry in Erbil, May 29, 2022. (Photo: KRG)
Prime Minister Masrour Barzani at a meeting in the Ministry of Municipalities and Tourism, May 29, 2022 (Photo: KRG)