A demonstrator holds a copy of the Quran, Islam's holy book, during a rally in Iraq's central shrine city of Kufa east of nearby Najaf after the weekly Friday prayers denouncing the burning of the Quran in Sweden, July 21, 2023. (Qassem al-
Employees of Iraq's Health Ministry veterinarian department disinfect, as a precaution against the spread of Congo hemorrhagic fever, an area near cows at a farm in southwestern Baghdad, May 22, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraqi riot police try to disperse supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gathering for a protest outside the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, July 20, 2023. (Photo: Ahmed Al-Rubaye/ AFP)
Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rasheed (right) during a meeting with US Ambassador to Iraq Alina L. Romanowski in Baghdad, May 10, 2023. (Photo: Iraqi Presidency)
Iraqi riot police use water cannon to disperse supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gathering for a protest outside the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, July 20, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (R) listens to Iraq's Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani during a press conference in Damascus, July 16, 2023. (Photo: Louay Beshara/AFP)
