Tents erected in front of the current Kirkuk JointOperations Command building that used to serve as KDP Kirkuk Headquarters, August 29, 2023. (Photo: Hemin Dalo/Kurdistan 24)
Iraqi forces search the area in Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, following clashes with Islamic State group fighters, Feb. 20, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani (left) shaking hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Saudi Arabia's Riyadh, Dec. 9, 2022. (Photo: Iraqi premier's office)
A picture shows the receding waterline of the Habbaniyah lake affected by severe drought in Iraq's Anbar province, August 11, 2023. (Photo: Murtadha Ridha/AFP)
Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr burn posters depicting an LGBTQ+ flag during a protest in Karbala, Iraq, June 29, 2023, sparked by the burning of a Quran in Sweden (Photo: Mohammed Sawaf/AFP/GETTY)
Iraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein (R) speaks during a joint press conference with Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Baghdad, Aug. 22, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani (top middle) during his meeting with United Kingdom Minister of State for Security Affairs Tom Tugendhat, Aug. 21, 2023. (Photo: INA)
A French soldier from the Wagram Task Force checks a CAESAR, a French self-propelled 155 mm howitzer, north of Mosul, Iraq, July 13, 2017. (Photo: Fadel Senna/AFP)
