A man dips his finger in ink after voting at a polling station in Iraq's capital Baghdad during the early parliamentary elections, October 10, 2021. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
Head of the Taliban delegation, deputy prime minister Abdul Salam Hanafi speaks to the media during an international conference on Afghanistan in Moscow, Oct. 20, 2021. (Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko /POOL/ AFP)
A mask-clad youth walks in front of a large poster of Iraq's populist Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr, in Sadr City, east of the capital Baghdad, July 15, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)