A photo circulated on social media purportedly shows the scene immediately following an explosion in Baghdad's Sadr City, July 19, 2021. (Photo: Social Media)
The sinking of a passenger ferry in Mosul in 2019 has been described as the worst disaster to hit the city since it was recaptured from ISIS. (Photo: Archive)
A medical worker unpacks a box of coronavirus vaccine vials from a refrigerator in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, July 19, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Residents of Baghdad's sprawling Sadr City neighborhood inspect the site of a deadly explosion the night before at a popular market, July 20, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraqis light candles at the site of the explosion in a popular market in the Sadr City neighborhood, east of Baghdad, July 19, 2021. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
A photo circulated on social media purportedly shows the scene immediately following an explosion in Baghdad's Sadr City, July 19, 2021. (Photo: Social Media)
People gather at the ravaged coronavirus isolation ward of Al-Hussein hospital after a massive fire overnight, in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, on July 13, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niaza/AFP)