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
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)
In this June 6, 2018 frame grab from Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, three versions of Iran’s domestically-built centrifuges are shown in a live TV program from the Natanz uranium enrichment plant. (Photo: IRIB/AP)
