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)
A young man light up candles for a vigil in mourning for the victims of a fire that swept through a COVID-19 coronavirus isolation, July 14, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
Workers search the rubble of a coronavirus isolation ward of al-Hussein Hospital in the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah after being destroyed by a deadly fire overnight, July 13, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Asaad Niazi)
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