An Iraqi veterinarian worker in protective kits carries a sheep into a pool of disinfectants against Crimean-Congo fever in Kirkuk, May 10, 2022. (Photo: Soran Kamaran/Kurdistan 24)
Displaced Iraqis sit in a tent at the Jadaa rehabilitation camp for the displaced near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, on May 11, 2022. (Photo: Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi laying the foundation stone for the reconstruction project of Mosul International Airport, Aug. 10, 2022. (Photo: Iraqi Government)
Shiite Muslim women cry as they watch worshippers re-enacting the Battle of Karbala as they mark the peak of Ashura, August 9, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Shiite Muslims react as they listen to a retelling of the story of the seventh century killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein, August 9, 2022. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)
An Iraqi woman shows her inked-stained finger after casting her vote in the country’s parliamentary elections in Ramadi, Iraq, May 12, 2018. (Photo: Hadi Mizban/AP)
A man stands by fans spraying air mixed with water vapour deployed by donors to cool down pedestrians along a street in Iraq's capital Baghdad, June 30, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Assyrian intellectuals and religious leaders standing for a moment of silence in the Kurdistan Region's Ankawa district to commemorate the 89th anniversary of the Simele massacre, August 7, 2022. (Photo: Shayma Bayiz/Kurdistan 24)
Supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr gather at the Iraqi capital Baghdad's high-security Green Zone as they continue their ongoing protest against a nomination for prime minister by a rival Shiite faction, August 5, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad