An Iraqi soldier passes under the Victory Arch monument built by former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, Iraq, Feb 28, 2023. (Photo: Hadi Mizban/ AP)
Iraqi President, Abdul Latif Rashid (right), during his meeting United States Ambassador to Iraq, Alina L. Romanowski, April 18, 2023. (Photo: Iraqi Presidency)
Muhammad Shia' Al-Sudani (right), the Prime Minister of Iraq, during his meeting with Dmytro Ivanovich Kuleba, the Foreign Minister of Ukraine, April 17, 2023. (Photo: the Media Office of the Iraqi Prime Minister)
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba is pictured during a joint presser with his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein in Baghdad, April 17, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
A view of the masonry of an old structure at the Umm al-Aqarib archaeological site, frequently buried by sandstorms due to desertification, in the district of al-Rifai in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province, March 31, 2023. (Photo: Asaad Niazi