Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr gather outside the Government Headquarters in the capital Baghdad's Green Zone, on August 29, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
PUK President Jalal Talabani (center) speaking during his party's leadership council meeting in Sulaimani, August 28, 2022. (Photo: PUK official media outlets)
Leaders of Kurdish political parties in a meeting with Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Erbil, Kurdistan Region, May 26, 2022. (Photo UNAMI)
Women supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada stand before his portrait at the vigil outside parliament headquarters in the capital Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, August 26, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi (right) attending the Islamic Conference for Combatting Violence Against Women in Baghdad, Iraq, August 27, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Ammar al-Hakim, the leader of the Wisdom Movement (Al-Hikma) participating in the Islamic Conference for Combating Violence Against Women, Baghdad, Iraq, August, 27, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Leaders of the Iraqi political parties, except the Sadrist Movement, meeting at the Iraqi Council of Ministers, responding to a call by Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, August, 27, 2022. (Photo: Iraqi Government Media Office)