Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi (center) speaks with Lheban village residents, who recently fended off an ISIS attack, Dec. 8, 2021. (Photo: Iraqi Government)
The Iraqi military and the US-led Coalition against ISIS hold a meeting in Baghdad as part of the Military Technical Talks on Dec. 9, 2021. (Photo: Iraqi government)
an aerial view of a sweeper using a metal-detector to search for landmines and unexploded ordnances near the village of Hassan-Jalad, north of Iraq's northern city of Mosul, Nov. 29, 2021. (Photo: Zaid al-Obeidi/AFP)
Iraq's PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi gets briefed by Sirwan Barzani, a top Peshmerga commander, on the Makhmour-Gwer frontline, Dec. 8, 2021. (Photo: Handout/Iraqi Government)
Ministry of Peshmerga Secretary-General Lieutenant Colonel Jabar Yawar meeting with Iraqi Army commanders. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Peshmerga Ministry)
A picture shows bystanders near a destroyed car in the southern Iraqi city of Basra after at least four civilians were killed and four more wounded in a motorcycle bombing near a hospital, Dec. 7, 2021. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
