A medic analyses samples from COVID-19 patients at a hospital in the Kurdistan Region’s northern city of Duhok, July 27, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
An Iraqi man is inoculated against the COVID-19 coronavirus at a vaccination center of Kufa, northeast of Najaf, July 25, 2021. (Photo: Ali Najafi/AFP)
Mask-clad students listen to their instructor on the first day of the new school year in the Kurdistan Region, Sept. 27, 2020. (Photo: AFP/Safen Hamid)
A female student listens to a lecture on the first day of the new school year in the Kurdistan Region amid the coronavirus pandemic, Sept. 27, 2020. (Photo: AFP/Safen Hamid)
A medical worker unpacks a box of coronavirus vaccine vials from a refrigerator in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, July 19, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
A female student listens to a lecture on the first day of the new school year in the Kurdistan Region amid the coronavirus pandemic, Sept. 27, 2020. (Photo: AFP/Safen Hamid)
A statue made from an iconic photograph of a dead father holding his dead son, taken of the aftermath of the 1988 Iraqi chemical attack on Halabja. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)