An aerial picture shows a general view of the site of the ancient city-state of Lagash, in Iraq's al-Shatra district of the southern Dhi Qar province, Feb. 11, 2023. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
Protests have taken place in the wake of an activist being handed a three-year jail term for purportedly insulting an ex-paramilitary group (Photo: Asaad NIAZI / AFP)
The Great Ziggurat temple in the ancient city of Ur in the southern province of Dhi Qar, around 375 kilometres southeast of the capital Baghdad (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
People gather at the ravaged coronavirus isolation ward of Al-Hussein hospital after a massive fire overnight, in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, on July 13, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niaza/AFP)
A young man light up candles for a vigil in mourning for the victims of a fire that swept through a COVID-19 coronavirus isolation, July 14, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)
Workers search the rubble of a coronavirus isolation ward of al-Hussein Hospital in the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah after being destroyed by a deadly fire overnight, July 13, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Asaad Niazi)
People gather at the ravaged coronavirus isolation ward of Al-Hussein hospital after a massive fire overnight, in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, on July 13, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niaza/AFP)
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