A photo taken by Kurdistan24 on August 1, 2025, shows the remnants of the Qader Karam Dam in Kirkuk province, amid a severe drought affecting the region.
An Iraqi farmer inspects the water level near his land in Iraq's southern port city of al-Faw, 90 kilometres south of Basra near the Shatt al-Arab and the Gulf on August 17, 2020. (Photo: AFP)
An Iraqi farmer walks near palm trees during date harvest season in a field in Janjah village in Iraq's Al-Qasim district south of Babylon on September 4, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
This aerial photo shows a boat during low water levels at the Chibaish marshes in Nasiriyah of southern Iraq, Thursday, June 16, 2022. (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)
A fisherman sits in a boat along the Shatt al-Arab waterway on a foggy morning in Iraq's southern city of Basra, Dec. 18, 2023. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
A picture shows the receding waterline of the Habbaniyah lake affected by severe drought in Iraq's Anbar province, August 11, 2023. (Photo: Murtadha Ridha/AFP)
An Iraqi dives into the waters of the Tigris river in Baghdad on July 12, 2023, as temperatures soared past 45 degrees Celsius. (Photo: Ahmed AL-Rubay/ AFP)
