An Iraqi youth bathes in a sulphur pond in the Hamam al-Alil area, about 14 kilometres from the southern outskirts of Mosul, on April 1, 2017. (Photo: AFP)
Iraqi mouners attend the funeral of inmates of the Badush prison, killed in Mosul by Islamic State (IS) group jihadists in 2014 and found in mass graves in 2017, May 16, 2023. (Photo: Qassem Al-Kaabi/AFP)
Military vehicles belonging to the Kurdistan Region's Peshmerga forces are pictured during an anti-ISIS joint operation with Iraqi army in Nineveh, May 3, 2023. (Photo: Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs)
he head of the restoration works said the team were surprised to discover eight murals with inscriptions, decorative drawings and writings (Photo: Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP/Getty Images)
A visitor donning 3D goggles views reconstructed models of ancient artefacts destroyed during the occupation of Mosul by Islamic State (IS) group fighters, August 3, 2022. (Photo: Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP)
A screengrab photo from a surveillance camera shows the moment a rocket fell in a residential area of Nineveh province’s Sheikhan district, June 21, 2022 (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Christian worshippers attend mass at the Mar Tuma Syriac Catholic Church in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on April 30, 2022, for the first time since its restoration after it was ransacked by Islamic State group jihadists (Photo: Zaid AL-OB
Turkish and Iraqi militaries execute a joint military exercise in Silopi, Sirnak on the Turkish side of their shared border following the 2017 Kurdistan independence referendum. (Photo: Emrah Oprukcu/NurPhoto)
Iraqi and Turkish soldiers stand next to tanks carrying Turkish and Iraqi flags during a joint military exercise near the Turkish-Iraqi border at Silopi district in Sirnak, September 26, 2017. (Photo: AFP)
