Abdul-Latif Rashid (right), the President of the Republic of Iraq, during his meeting with Liban Sheikh Mahmood, Somali Ambassador to Iraq, Feb. 5, 2023. (Photo: Iraqi Presidency)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a meeting of the Commission of the General Council of the All-Russian political party (United Russia) in Moscow, Feb. 3, 2023. (Photo: Yuri Kochektov/ POOL /AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani (top middle), during his meeting with top Iraqi officials, Feb, 4, 2023. (Photo: The Media Office of the Iraqi Prime Minister)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia' Al-Sudani speaking during an interview with the state-media Iraqiya TV in Baghdad, Jan. 31, 2023. (Photo: Screengrab/Iraqiya News Channel)
Iraqi and Turkish soldiers stand next to tanks carrying Turkish and Iraqi flags during a joint military exercise near the Turkish-Iraqi border at Silopi district in Sirnak, September 26, 2017. (Photo: AFP)
An aerial view of marshes of Chibayish during an environmental clean up campaign sponsored by the French embassy with local civil society organisations in the southern Iraqi Dhi Qar province, May 19, 2022. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia' Al-Sudani speaking during an exclusive France 24 interview in the French capital Paris, Jan. 27, 2023. (Photo: Screengrab/France 24)
Ukrainian women and children cross the border from Ukraine to Poland at the Korczowa-Krakovets border crossing on Feb. 26, 2022. (Photo: Janek Skarzynski/AFP)
Haider Hannoon, the Head of the Iraqi Commission of Integrity (left), signing the memorandum of understanding with Charles Duchaine, the Head of the French Anti-Corruption Agency, Jan. 27, 2023. (Photo: Media Office of Iraqi Prime Minister)
A man stands holding a sign reading in Arabic "depreciate the rate of the [US] dollar, or else..!" during a protest against the depreciation of the Iraqi dinar against the US dollar in Baghdad, Jan. 25, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
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