An aerial picture shows a view of the Wadi-al-Salam cemetery in Iraq's shrine city of Najaf on May 7, 2024. Wadi-al-Salam cemetery, often described as the world's biggest, is a sombre expanse of crypts, vaults and catacombs near the mausoleum of the revered Imam Ali, the founding figure of Shiite Islam, which bears silent witness to life and death over 14 centuries. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





An Iraqi Yazidi man stands in front of a building destroyed during the 2014 attack by Islamic State (IS) fighters and the battles that followed, in the village of Solagh in the Sinjar region of the northern Iraqi Nineveh province on May 6, 2024. In August 2014, Islamic State (IS) fighters swept over Mount Sinjar, the Kurdish-speaking minority's historic home in northern Iraq, massacring thousands of Yazidis. (Photo by Safin Hamid/AFP Photo)





Iraqi barber, Hussein Falih, 31, crafts an artwork of a tiger using his clients hair, at his shop in Baghdad, Iraq, on May 8, 2024. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)





This aerial view shows harvesters operating in a centre-pivot irrigated wheat field in the Karbala Agricultural City megaproject, in reclaimed desert land about 40 kilometres south of Iraq's central city of Karbala on May 15, 2024, during the project's first wheat harvest season. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Members of the Dohuk national arts group dance on stage in traditional uniforms in the northern city of Zakho, near the border with Turkey in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, during a Kurdish costume festival on May 15, 2024. Kurds from Iran, Turkey, Syria, and Iraq attended the Shal, Shabak, and Kurdish Costume Festival in its second edition. (Photo by Ismael Adnan/AFP Photo)





An Iranian Shi'ite pilgrim shows the news on her phone after the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, at the Imam Ali shrine in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq on May 20, 2024. (Photo by Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters)





This aerial vew shows children swimming next to a sunken vessel in the Shatt al-Arab river, formed at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in Iraq's southern city of Basra on May 25, 2024. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Fishermen working on a boat at night are silhouetted in the moonlight in the Shatt al-Arab river, formed at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in Iraq's southern city of Basra late on May 26, 2024. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Iraqi calligrapher Nahro Kadeer Rasheed do calligraphy in a mosque in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq on May 31, 2024. Rasheed keeping his profession alive as a calligrapher and fine writing artist for 30 years and inscribing calligraphy in the city's mosques, dreams of recreating the calligraphy works in the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque. Rashid is working both in Sulaymaniyah and abroad to revive the art of calligraphy in Iraq and to teach it to new generations. (Photo by Fariq Faraj Mahmood/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A youth dives in the Shatt al-Arab river, formed at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Iraq, to cool off during a heatwave in Basra on June 4, 2024. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





This aerial view shows youths swimming to cool off in the waters of Iraq's Euphrates river during a heatwave, in the district of al-Hindiyah east of Karbala on June 7, 2024. (Photo by Karar Jabbar/AFP Photo)





Flames rise after a massive fire broke out at the asphalt storage facility of an oil refinery located on Erbil-Gwer road in Iraq on June 12, 2024. Firefighter teams respond to the flames. (Photo by Ahsan Mohammed Ahmed Ahmed/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A fire burns on top of Tulipe Towers, an unfinished residential building in western Erbil, Iraq, 13 June 2024. The fire extended to other floors of the building without causing casualties so far, a local security official said. (Photo by Gailan Haji/ EPA)





Sheep marked for sacrifice wait in an enclosure on the eve of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, in Iraq's southern city of Basra on June 15, 2024. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





A shepherd boy walks with a flock of a sheep in Iraq's southern city of Basra on June 15, 2024 on the eve of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Iraqis skate at the Zayouna Mall ice skating rink in the capital Baghdad on June 16, 2024. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Iraqi residents take a ride at an amusement park as they celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Adha in Baghdad, Iraq, on June 16, 2024. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)





An aerial view shows people visiting the graves of loved ones at the Wadi al-Salam cemetery in Iraq's shrine city of Najaf on June 17, 2024 on the second day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha or the Feast of Sacrifice. (Photo by Qassem Al-Kaabi/AFP Photo)





A boy jumps to dive into a canal of the Tigris river in Baghdad amid a soaring heatwave on June 18, 2024 on the third day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





A musician cools down with a hand-held fan ahead of a concert the Iraqi al-Sumariyat Band, composed mainly of women, performing traditional music from Iraq during a concert led by Maestro Alaa Majeed at the National Theater in Baghdad on June 23, 2024. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)