Police officers stop vehicles at a checkpoint in the Karrada district of Iraq's capital Baghdad on March 14, 2021, as they enforce a total curfew imposed to curb COVID-19 coronavirus cases. (AFP)
Iraqi Major General Jabar Al-Tayi, Commander of West Nineveh Operations, and Brigadier General Atheer Al-Zubaidi, Commander of the 20th Division, meeting with local notables in Sinjar, May 5, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Deputy Secretary-General of Badr Organization Abdul-Karim Younis Aylan known as Abu Maryam Al-Ansari died in a car accident in Maysan. (Photo: Al-Ghadeer TV)
Lukas Andriukaitis, Associate Director at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), being interviewed by Kurdistan 24, May 4, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24 TV screenshot)
Members of Iraq's Rapid Intervention forces driving in a village in the Hawi al-Azim area, in the eastern Diyala province on Jan. 24, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Lt. Gen. Ahmed Taha Hashim, popularly known as Abu Ragheef, is the head of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior's intelligence wing. (Photo: Handout/Federal Intelligence and Investigations Agency)
Iraqi Shiite Muslim clerics, supporters of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), demonstrate in the capital Baghdad's Tahrir Square, December 5, 2019. (Photo: AFP)