In front of the damaged shopping mall after a fire tore through the newly opened Hyper Mall overnight in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut, July 17, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
The charred remains of the Hyper Mall building in Kut, Iraq, stand in silence the day after a devastating fire killed 61 people and injured dozens more, July 17, 2025. (Photo: Social Media)
Firefighters battle towering flames and search for survivors during a deadly overnight blaze at Hyper Mall in Kut, Iraq, July 16, 2025. (Photo: Social Media)
Iraqi Parliament’s Oil and Energy Committee convening a questioning session with the Iraqi Minister of Oil, directors of SOMO, and the Oil Ministry’s Transportation Company, July 14, 2025. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani, (C-R), in meeting with General Kevin Leahy, Commander of the Global Coalition forces in Iraq and Syria, in Erbil, July 14, 2025. (Photo: Kurdistan Presidency)
A woman hangs laundry at the Al-Amal Camp (formerly Al-Jadaa), south of Mosul in northern Iraq, which houses Iraqi families who have been repatriated from Syria's Al-Hol camp, on May 8, 2025. (Photo: AFP)