A still from a televised recording that appears to show a man confessing to the killing of late Iraqi security expert Hisham al-Hashimi. (Photo: Iraqi state TV)
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)
A young man light up candles for a vigil in mourning for the victims of a fire that swept through a COVID-19 coronavirus isolation, July 14, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
Workers search the rubble of a coronavirus isolation ward of al-Hussein Hospital in the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah after being destroyed by a deadly fire overnight, July 13, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Asaad Niazi)
An Islamic State hideout, made from metal bed frames and meshes, and built inside an irrigation canal, is discovered by Iraqi troops. (Photo: The Guardian/Ghaith Abdul-Ahad)
An Iraqi man connects overhead cables providing generator electricity to homes and businesses who can afford it in Sadr City, east of the capital Baghdad, on July 2, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye)
