An Iraqi man is inoculated against the COVID-19 coronavirus at a vaccination center of Kufa, northeast of Najaf, July 25, 2021. (Photo: Ali Najafi/AFP)
Safa al-Saeedi, 29, (R) and Dalal Abedlamir, 24, two of 180 women among the 5,000 employees of the Basrah Gas Company near the southern Iraqi city of Basra, speak to each other, on Jan. 20, 2022. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi. (Photo: Iraqi Prime Minister's Office)
A woman sits on the ground as Iraqi soldiers man a checkpoint in the the capital Baghdad on January 28, 2022, following a reported rocket attack on the country's airport, Jan. 28, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
a damaged stationary aircraft on the tarmac of Baghdad airport, after rockets reportedly targeted the runway, on Jan. 28, 2022. (Photo: AFP Photo/ Ho/ Facebook Page of the Iraqi Ministry of Transportation)