Boys play in the water of the Chibayish marshes in southern Iraq which has suffered from high salinity levels as a result of back to back drought and declining water levels, in Dhi Qar province, Iraq, Friday Sept. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Anmar K
Iraqi President Abdul Rasheed Latif speaking during the MEPS22 at the American University of Kurdistan (AUK) in Duhok province, Nov. 17, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
A view of a dried up body of a dead fish on drying earth in the Chibayesh marshland in Iraq's southern Ahwar area, June 20, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
In this Feb. 20, 2017 file photo, Canadian special forces soldiers, left and right, speak with Kurdish Peshmerga fighters at an observation post, in northern Iraq. (Photo: Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP, File)