Kurdistan Region Minister of Municipalities and Tourism Sasan Awni, Kurdistan Region Minister of Electricity Kamal Mohammed Saleh, and Erbil Governor Omed Khoshnaw in meeting, Erbil, April 14, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Gary Qasruka village abandoned 36 years ago in the Kurdistan Region's Duhok province resurfaced following a sharp decline in Duhok Dam's water level due to drought, Nov. 4, 2021. (Photo: Ismael Adnan/AFP)
The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, planting a palm tree at the UN Compound in Baghdad, as part of World Health Day, April 10, 2022. (Photo: UNAMI Twitter Account)
Young Iraqi volunteers take part in a clean-up campaign on the bank of the Tigris river in the Adhamiyah district of the capital Baghdad, March 11, 2022. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)
An intense dust storm has hit the Kurdistan Region's capital Erbil, significantly reducing visibility in the city, April 7, 2022. (Photo: Rebaz Siyan/Kurdistan 24)
Veterinarian Karrar Ibrahim Hindi examines a sick buffalo, at a farm in the marshes of Iraq's southern district of Chibayish in Dhi Qar province, March 26, 2022. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)