An Iraqi man receives treatment at an emergency ward at a hospital in Baghdad as choking clouds of dust blanketed the Iraqi capital, June 13, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad al-Ruabye/AFP)
Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr delivers a speech before ending it abruptly due to his disapproval at the behaviour of an overenthusiastic crowd, in the central Iraqi city of Najaf, June 3, 2022. (Photo: Qassem Al-Kaabi/AFP)
Supporters hold a banner with the picture of Muqtada al-Sadr in a spontaneous rally after preliminary results of the Iraqi 2018 elections were announced showing Muqtada al-Sadr has become the unexpected frontrunner. (Photo: H. Mizban/AP)
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)
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) President Masoud Barzani in meeting with Leaders of Al-Siyada Sunni Alliance Mohammed Al-Halbousi and Khamis al-Khanjar, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, June 11, 2022. (Photo: Barzani headquarters)
A forensics expert uses a brush to exhume a skull at the site of a mass grave, discovered by chance when property developers wanted to prepare the land for construction, in the central city of Najaf, May 18, 2022. (Photo: Qassem Al-Kaabi/AF