Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with the Iraqi parliament's first deputy speaker, Mohsen Mandalawi, in Erbil, Oct. 1, 2022. (Photo: KRG)
Iraqi Speaker of Parliament Mohammed Al-Halboosi speaking during the fourth forum of Al-Rafidain Center for Dialogue in Baghdad, Sept. 26, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi participates in the 77th United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 20, 2022. (Photo: Media Office of the Prime Minister)
Iraqi fisherman Naim Haddad, 40, stands barefoot on his boat at sunset on Shatt al-Arab, the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that empties into the Gulf, near the city of Basrah in southern Iraq, Feb. 12, 2022. (Photo: Ayman He
Shiite Muslims gather in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala, to mark 40 days after the holy day of Ashura commemorating the seventh century killing of Imam Hussein (Photo: Mohammed Sawaf/AFP).
Two senior ISIS operatives were killed by a targeted Iraqi airstrike in Anbar province that destroyed their vehicle, Feb. 17, 2022. (Photo: Iraqi Security Media Cell/Facebook)