A technician checks the oil on the dipstick of one of the fuel-based electricity generators in a battery in the eastern Sadr City suburb of Iraq's capital Baghdad, Sept. 27, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) President Masoud Barzani (top right) during his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Oct. 3, 2022. (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (left) receiving his Iraqi counterpart Mustafa Al-Kadhimi at Erbil International Airport, Oct. 3, 2022. (Photo: KRG)
Iraqi graduates from the Dhi Qar governorate demonstrate in its major city of Nasiriyah, blocking the Zaytoun bridge on Aug. 23, 2022. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with the Iraqi parliament's first deputy speaker, Mohsen Mandalawi, in Erbil, Oct. 1, 2022. (Photo: KRG)
Iraqi Speaker of Parliament Mohammed Al-Halboosi speaking during the fourth forum of Al-Rafidain Center for Dialogue in Baghdad, Sept. 26, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi participates in the 77th United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 20, 2022. (Photo: Media Office of the Prime Minister)
Iraqi fisherman Naim Haddad, 40, stands barefoot on his boat at sunset on Shatt al-Arab, the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that empties into the Gulf, near the city of Basrah in southern Iraq, Feb. 12, 2022. (Photo: Ayman He
Shiite Muslims gather in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala, to mark 40 days after the holy day of Ashura commemorating the seventh century killing of Imam Hussein (Photo: Mohammed Sawaf/AFP).
