Soldiers from the international coalition against the ISIS clear debris from Ain al-Assad Airbase in the west of Iraq, Jan. 13, 2020. (Photo: Ayman Henna/AFP)
US President Joe Biden (right) speaks with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi at the White House in Washington, DC, July 26, 2021. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP)
Joey Hood, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, shows Fawzi Hariri, Chief of Staff to the President of the Kurdistan Region, a vista of Washington on July 23, 2021. (Photo: US State Department)
A photo circulated on social media purportedly shows the scene immediately following an explosion in Baghdad's Sadr City, July 19, 2021. (Photo: Social Media)
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)