Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia' Al-Sudani (right) during his meeting with EU chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, Dec. 21, 2022. (Photo: Iraqi Prime Minister Office)
French President Emmanuel Macron meets Jordan's King Abdullah II (L) during the "Baghdad I" summit in the Iraqi capital on August 28, 2021. (Photo: AFP)
(Front L to R) French President Emmanuel Macron, Iraq's Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani, Jordan's King Abdullah, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and Jordan's Crown Prince Hussein, Dec. 20, 2022. (Photo: Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)
The bodies of Iraq's federal police members who were killed in suspected IS attack, are repatriated from Kirkuk airport in northern Iraq, Dec. 18, 2022. (Photo: Marwan Ibrahimi/AFP)
Abdul Ameer Yarallah, Iraqi Army Chief of Staff, (left) arriving in Kirkuk province following deadly ISIS attack on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2022. (Photo: Iraqi Defense Ministry)
Iraqi government officials wearing white coveralls and face masks destroy nearly six tons of drugs, some of which had been in storage for more than a decade, Dec. 18, 2022. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)
The bodies of Iraq's federal police members who were killed in suspected IS attack, are repatriated from Kirkuk airport in northern Iraq, Dec. 18, 2022. (Photo: Marwan Ibrahim/AFP)
A conservator pieces together a Turkish-language manuscript undergoing restoration at the Iraqi Manuscript House's resoration lab in Iraq's capital Baghdad, Dec. 6, 2022. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)
Iraqi forces search the area in Tarmiyah north of Baghdad following clashes with Islamic State group fighters, February 20, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
A boy walks on a boat left lying on the dried-up bed of a section of Iraq's receding southern marshes of Chibayish in Dhi Qar province, June 28, 2022. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/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 demonstrators block a road with burning tyres as they protest the death of fellow protestors in clashes with security forces, in the southern city of Nasiriyah, Dec. 11, 2022. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia' Al-Sudani speaks during a presser against the backdrop of sacks of the recovered stolen money from the tax authority in Baghdad, Nov. 27, 2022. (Photo: Iraqi Prime Minister Office)
