Students attend class at the mixed-gender al-Tafawuq elementary school, in the Bani Saad district in Iraq's Diyala province on March 10, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
A combined photo of the slain Iraqi security expert Hisham Al-Hashimi (R) and his convicted assassin Ahmed Hamdawi Oued al-Kenani (L). (Photo: Designed by Kurdistan 24)
Sprinklers spray a field, part of a new water management systems brought by the UN World Food Programme, on a farm in the village of al-Azrakiya. (Photo: AFP)
Iraqi Defense Minister Najah al-Shammari speaks to journalists after his meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, in Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 23, 2019. (Photo: AP)