Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar (center right) and Turkish President Recep Erdogan (center left) take part in a parade in Cyprus' divided capital Nicosia, July 20, 2021. (Photo: Birol Bebek/AFP)
The sinking of a passenger ferry in Mosul in 2019 has been described as the worst disaster to hit the city since it was recaptured from ISIS. (Photo: Archive)
Iraqis inspect the site of the explosion a day earlier in a popular market in the Shiite-majority Sadr City neighborhood, east of the capital Baghdad on July 20, 2021. (Photo: AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP)
Iraqis inspect the site of the explosion in a popular market in the mostly Shia neighborhood of Sadr City, east of Baghdad, on July 19, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
People gather at the ravaged coronavirus isolation ward of Al-Hussein hospital after a massive fire overnight, in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, on July 13, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niaza/AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi is pictured during an interview with al-Hadath TV that aired on Sunday, July 19, 2021. (Photo: Iraqi government)
Bashar al-Assad arrived at his swearing-in ceremony in Damascus, Syria on July 17, 2021. Assad was reelected for a fourth term as president in a May election deemed neither
