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)
Soldiers from the international coalition against the ISIS clear debris from Ain al-Asad Airbase in the west of Iraq, Jan. 13, 2020. (Photo: Ayman Henna/AFP)
A cattle disinfection campaign in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk, a day after registering the first death of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever as cases of the virus spread to the country's north, May 7, 2022. (Photo: Shwan Nawzad/AFP)
The representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to the Iraqi Armed Forces Command General Abdul-Khaliq Talaat, speaking to Kurdistan 24 correspondent, May 29, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Sadrist Movement leader Muqtada al-Sadr reading a statement at his headquarters in al-Hananah, Najaf, May 16, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24 TV screengrab)
A view of a dried up body of a dead fish on drying earth in the Chibayesh marshland in Iraq's southern Ahwar area, June 20, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)