A aerial picture shows palm tree groves during harvest season in Janjah village in Iraq's Al-Qasim district south of Babylon on Sept. 4, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
U.S. presidential envoy for hostage affairs Adam Boehler speaks during a ceremony to raise the Hostage and Wrongful Detainee flag at the State Department, Mar. 6, 2025, in Washington. (Photo: AP)
Iraq’s Minister of Environment, Dr. Hallo Al-Askari, (2nd R), and Ghulam Isaczai, the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq (2nd L), Mar. 10, 2025. (Photo: Iraqi Gov.).
The Iraqi national flag flies over a newly inaugurated gas processing facility at Tuba oil field in the southern oil-rich province of Basra, Iraq, June 4, 2011. (Photo: AP)
The 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) successfully pilots an AH-64 Apache with Spike NLOS training missiles at Erbil Airbase, Iraq, on March 5, 2025. (Photo: Staff Sgt. Vincent Levelev/DVDIS)
Demonstrators gather outside the thermal power station in Nasiriyah in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province to demand the construction of a new station for their region, Sept. 4, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
