Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani on Tuesday met with Dr. Andrea Nasi, the Head of the Austrian Embassy in Baghdad, Dec. 19. 2023 (Photo: Iraqi PM office)
A voter registers before voting in the 2023 Iraqi provincial council elections, the first such vote in a decade, at a polling station in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, Dec. 18, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
An elderly man holds his ballot while voting in the 2023 Iraqi provincial council elections, the first such vote in a decade, at a polling station in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, Dec. 18, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraqi High Election Commission staff meet in the election hall for the first provincial council elections in a decade, at a polling station in Sadr City in the capital Baghdad, Dec. 18, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraqi Minister of Interior Abdul Amir al-Shammari (left) is pictured while he speaks to IHEC officers in Baghdad, Dec. 18, 2023. (Photo: Submitted to Kurdistan24)
An Iraqi security officer electronically registers as he arrives to vote in the early round for members of the military and security forces in the 2023 Iraqi municipal elections, Dec. 16, 2023. (Photo: Qassem Al-Kaabi/AFP)
A voter (right) is seen waiting for electoral officials to verify his identity in order to cast his ballot at the Iraqi provincial elections in Erbil, Dec. 16, 2023. (Photo: Hoshmand Sadiq/Kurdistan24)
