A man dips his finger in ink after voting at a polling station in Iraq's capital Baghdad during the early parliamentary elections, October 10, 2021. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
Head of the Taliban delegation, deputy prime minister Abdul Salam Hanafi speaks to the media during an international conference on Afghanistan in Moscow, Oct. 20, 2021. (Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko /POOL/ AFP)
An aerial picture shows mourners gathering around coffins wrapped with the Iraqi flag during a mass funeral for Yazidi victims of ISIS in the village of Kojo in Sinjar district, Feb. 6, 2021. (Photo: Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP)
Iraqi security forces stand guard during the visit of the country's prime minister to take part in a ceremony in the southern city of Basra, to lay the foundation stones for the al-Faw grand port project, Apr. 11, 2021. (Photo: AFP)
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)
Members of the Iraqi Counter-terrorism Service (ICTS) are deployed in the streets of the capital Baghdad, days after a military parade by an armed faction loyal to Iran, March 27, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
