Mourners gather around as a coffin is buried during a mass funeral for Yezidi victims of ISIS in the northern Iraqi village of Kocho in Sinjar district, on February 6, 2021. (Photo: Zaid al-Obeidi / AFP)
According to preliminary results of Iraq's October election, the biggest winner of the vote was the movement of Shia cleric and political maverick Muqtada al-Sadr. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye, AFP)
the Arch of Ctesiphon, also known as Taq Kisra (Khosrow's Arch), stands before the conservators' scaffolding at the ancient site of Ctesiphon near moden al-Madain in central Iraq, Nov. 24, 2021. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)
Iraq’s education minister, Ali Hamid, during a meeting of top ministry officials and multiple senior provincial education administrators. (Photo: Ministry of Education)
Women demonstrate near the Kadhimiya court in Iraq's capital Baghdad on November 21, 2021, in protest against the legalisation of a marriage contract for a 12-year-old girl, Nov. 21, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
