An Iraqi youth bathes in a sulphur pond in the Hamam al-Alil area, about 14 kilometres from the southern outskirts of Mosul, on April 1, 2017. (Photo: AFP)
An aerial picture shows agricultural land surrounding effluents of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet, in Iraq's southern city of Basra, on June 12, 2023. (Photo: AFP)
An Iraqi farmer inspects the water level near his land in Iraq's southern port city of al-Faw, 90 kilometres south of Basra near the Shatt al-Arab and the Gulf on August 17, 2020. (Photo: AFP)
Iraq’s National Security Adviser Qasim al-Araji (right) during his meeting with and US Charge d’Affaires in Baghdad Daniel Rubinstein, March 23, 2025. (Photo: INA)
