An Iraqi man connects overhead cables providing generator electricity to homes and businesses who can afford it in Sadr City, Baghdad, July 2, 2021, amid power outages and soaring temperatures. (Photo: AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP)
A photo showing rocket launchers in Jihad neighborhood, Baghdad, Iraq, on July 02, 2021. Security sources said the launchers were directed at Baghdad International Airport, where US forces are stationed. (Photo: Security Media Cell)
A technician controls an electric switch board connecting homes to privately-owned electricity generators in a suburb of Iraq's capital Baghdad, June 30, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld posing with troops assigned to Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq's restive Al-Anbar province, Dec. 9, 2006. (Photo: Cherie a Thurlby/ DOD/ AFP)
Electric fans spraying a mixture of water and air cool down pedestrians amid a scorching heatwave in Baghdad, June 30, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
Iraqi youth swim in the Shatt Al-Arab river by the port of Maqil amid a heatwave in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, June 29, 2021. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
Members of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitary forces march in a symbolic funerary parade in the capital Baghdad, June 29, 2021. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)
Screenshot from a video released by US Central Command showing airstrikes against suspected PMF militia storage facilities in as-Sikak near the Syria-Iraq border, June 27, 2021. (Photo: Jack Holt/US CENTCOM)
Screenshot from a video released by US Central Command showing airstrikes against suspected PMF militia storage facilities in as-Sikak near the Syria-Iraq border, June 27, 2021. (Photo: Jack Holt/US CENTCOM via Kurdistan 24)
