Stockpiled fertilizer sits at a port as a bulk carrier remains idle amid Hormuz shipping disruptions. (Kurdistan24 AI-generated photo to illustrate the news article)
The bulk carrier Razoni starts its way from the port in Odesa, Ukraine, Aug. 1, 2022. According to Ukraine's Ministry of Infrastructure, the ship is carrying 26 thousand tons of Ukrainian corn to Lebanon (Photo: Michael Shtekel/AP)
The signing ceremony in Turkey’s Istanbul between Russian and Turkish defense ministers to allow Ukraine to resume shipping grain from the Black Sea, July 22, 2022 (Photo: Vadim Savitsky, Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
A family sit on a rock in front of a cargo ship anchors in the Marmara Sea awaits to access to cross the Bosphorus Straits in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 13, 2022 (Photo: Khalil Hamra/AP/File)
UN agencies warned on May 17, 2022, that urgent additional funding is needed to continue assisting 72,000 vulnerable Syrian refugees in the Kurdistan Region (Photo: WFP/Hashem Marwan Khalil)
A worker at a rice mill in Iraq's central province of Najaf, where water shortages mean a drastic reduction in the amount that can be cultivated (Photo: Qassem al-Kaabi/AFP)
