Supporters of the Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr gather inside the parliament in the capital Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, as they continue their sit-in to protest a rival bloc's nomination for prime minister on August 2 (Photo: Sabah Arar
French President Emmanuel Macron steps down from his plane at Baghdad International Airport to begin his Iraq tour, Sept. 2, 2020. (Photo: Gonzalo Fuentes/AFP)
President Joe Biden speaks from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House, Aug. 1, 2022, as he announces that a US airstrike killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghanistan (Photo: Jim Watson/Pool via AP)
Iraqi riot police protect the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad on Feb. 18, 2021, after calls on social media to gather there to protest Turkey's vows to invade the northwestern enclave of Sinjar (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr take part in a mourning ritual amid the Shiite Muslim Ashura commemoration period as they occupy Iraq's parliament (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP).
Supporters of the Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr celebrate after bringing down concrete barriers leading to the capital Baghdad's Green Zone, July 30, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraqi protesters fill the Parliament building in Baghdad, July 30, 2022 as thousands of followers of an influential Shiite cleric breached the building for the second time in a week (Photo: Anmar Khalil/AP)
