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)
A man stands on the bank of the Shatt al-Arab river in Iraq's southern city of Basra during a sandstorm sweeping the country, May 23, 2022. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
Coalition for Just Reparations (C4JR), an alliance of Iraqi NGOs, met with UN genocide prevention adviser Alice Wairimu Nderitu on Saturday, May 21, 2022 (Photo: Coalition for Just Reparations)