A mask-clad youth walks in front of a large poster of Iraq's populist Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr, in Sadr City, east of the capital Baghdad, July 15, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (left) during his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, April 10, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency office)
A still from videos posted on social media showing smoke rising from areas that saw violent clashes between Iraqi police forces and supporters of Iran-aligned PMF militias. (Photo: Social media)
Affiliates of pro-Iran militias gather near the Iraqi capital's Green Zone as part of protests to reject the official results of the national election held in October. (Photo: Social media video/Screenshot)
Supporters of Iranian-backed PMF militias at a site where violent clashes erupted between them and Iraqi security forces on Nov. 5, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
A demonstrator holds up a banner reading "no reform and no change while maintaining the allotment scheme", during a protest in al-Haboubi Square in the centre of Iraq's city of Nasiriyah, Oct. 25, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
Al-Dijla channel news correspondent Ahmad Abdul Samad (L) and photographer Safaa Ghali, assassinated Jan. 11, 2021, while they were covering protests in Iraq’s Basra. (Photo: Archive)