Thousands of Captagon pills on display after confiscation by Iraqi security forces in Maysan province, April 27, 2022. (Photo: Handout/ Iraqi directorate of combatting drugs)
Christian worshippers attend mass at the Mar Tuma Syriac Catholic Church in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on April 30, 2022, for the first time since its restoration after it was ransacked by Islamic State group jihadists (Photo: Zaid AL-OB
A healthcare worker in Iraq sprays pesticides on livestock to prevent the spread of animal-borne viral hemorrhage fevers (Photo: Handout/Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture)
A view of the right bank (western) of the Tigris river in Iraq's capital Baghdad during a severe dust storm, April 20, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
A member of the US-led coalition against ISIS walks past a military drone parked at Ain Al-Asad airbase in Iraq's western Anbar province, Jan. 13, 2020. (Photo: Ayman Henna/AFP)
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) President Masoud Barzani in meeting with Fakhri Karim, President of Al-Mada Foundation for Media, Culture, and Arts, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, April, 27, 2022. (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)
The Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi in meeting with the Iraqi Parliament Second Deputy Speaker Shakhawan Abdullah, discussing means of cooperation between the executive and legislative authorities, April 26, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan
Iraqi forces search the area in Tarmiyah, 35 kilometres (20 miles) north of Baghdad, following clashes with Islamic State group fighters, February 20, 2021 (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye / AFP)