An Iraqi woman shows her inked-stained finger after casting her vote in the country’s parliamentary elections in Ramadi, Iraq, May 12, 2018. (Photo: Hadi Mizban/AP)
A man stands by fans spraying air mixed with water vapour deployed by donors to cool down pedestrians along a street in Iraq's capital Baghdad, June 30, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Assyrian intellectuals and religious leaders standing for a moment of silence in the Kurdistan Region's Ankawa district to commemorate the 89th anniversary of the Simele massacre, August 7, 2022. (Photo: Shayma Bayiz/Kurdistan 24)
Supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr gather at the Iraqi capital Baghdad's high-security Green Zone as they continue their ongoing protest against a nomination for prime minister by a rival Shiite faction, August 5, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad
Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr (image), occupy the Iraqi parliament for a fifth consecutive day, in protest at a nomination for prime minister by a rival Shiite faction in Baghdad's Green Zone, August 3, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Ruba
Iraqi youths react to the heat as they wait to buy ice blocks at a factory in Sadr City, east of the capital Baghdad, amid power outages and soaring temperatures, July 2, 2021. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr (image), wave flags as they occupy the Iraqi parliament for a fifth consecutive day in the capital Baghdad's Green Zone, August 3, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/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 photographer Samira Mazaal poses for a picture next to framed images retracing her career at her studio in the city of Amarah in Iraq's southeastern Maysan province , July 9, 2022. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
