Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr (image), occupy the Iraqi parliament for a fifth consecutive day, in protest at a nomination for prime minister by a rival Shiite faction in Baghdad's Green Zone, August 3, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Ruba
Iraqi youths react to the heat as they wait to buy ice blocks at a factory in Sadr City, east of the capital Baghdad, amid power outages and soaring temperatures, July 2, 2021. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr (image), wave flags as they occupy the Iraqi parliament for a fifth consecutive day in the capital Baghdad's Green Zone, August 3, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraqi forces search the area in Tarmiyah, 35 kilometres (20 miles) north of Baghdad following clashes with Islamic State group fighters, Feb. 20, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraqi photographer Samira Mazaal poses for a picture next to framed images retracing her career at her studio in the city of Amarah in Iraq's southeastern Maysan province , July 9, 2022. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
Supporters of the Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr gather inside the parliament in the capital Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, as they continue their sit-in to protest a rival bloc's nomination for prime minister on August 2 (Photo: Sabah Arar
French President Emmanuel Macron steps down from his plane at Baghdad International Airport to begin his Iraq tour, Sept. 2, 2020. (Photo: Gonzalo Fuentes/AFP)
Iraqi riot police protect the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad on Feb. 18, 2021, after calls on social media to gather there to protest Turkey's vows to invade the northwestern enclave of Sinjar (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr take part in a mourning ritual amid the Shiite Muslim Ashura commemoration period as they occupy Iraq's parliament (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP).