People block a road with burning tyres as they protest water shortages and the drying up of rivers, on the main road linking the Babil and Qadisiyah governorates in the Al-Majriya area of central Iraq's Hilla city on Jul. 25, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
Rukaya Ghali, a female labourer loads clay bricks onto a donkey-pulled cart, at a factory in al-Kifl district on the outskirts of Hilla in central Iraq, on Feb. 10, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
