A man rides a motorcycle between burning tires during ongoing anti-government protests in Najaf, Iraq on January 20, 2020. (Photo by Alaa al-Marjani/Reuters)





Iraqi demonstrators run away for a cover during ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad, Iraq on January 29, 2020. (Photo by Thaier al-SudanI/Reuters)





An anti-government protester throws back a tear gas canister at security forces during clashes at Tayaran Square, east of Tahrir Square in the centre of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on January 20, 2020. (Photo by Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Iraqi medical staff check passengers' temperature, amid the new coronavirus outbreak, upon their arrival at Najaf airport, Iraq on February 20, 2020. (Photo by Alaa al-Marjani/Reuters)





A member of the medical team checks the temperature of a child, following the coronavirus outbreak, at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Duhok, Iraq on March 2, 2020. (Photo by Ari Jalal/Reuters)





Sundus Garis, a 16-year-old displaced Iraqi woman from the Yazidi community who fled Sinjar, is pictured through a car's window during her wedding ceremony in the northernwestern Iraqi Kurdish city of Dohuk, near the border with Turkey, on January 23, 2020. Sinjar, a region west of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul that was overrun by the fanatic Islamic State (IS) group five years ago, is the historic home of the Yazidi minority which under went a brutal campaign waged by IS jihadists who forced children to become soldiers and used thousands of women as s*x slaves. Only a sliver of Sinjar's native population of 500,000 Yazidis has returned since their region was taken back by Iraqi forces from IS in 2017, with the rest saying persistent destruction, the lack of services and the tense security situation have kept them in camps. (Photo by Safin Hamed/AFP Photo)





Iraqi demonstrators warm themselves during ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad, Iraq on January 22, 2020. (Photo by Thaier al-SudanI/Reuters)





Iraqi people wear protective face masks, following the outbreak of the new coronavirus, as they walk past burning tires ignited by Iraqi protesters to block the road during ongoing anti-government protests in Nassiriya, Iraq on February 25, 2020. (Photo by Ahmed Dhahi/Reuters)





Posters of anti-government protesters who have been killed in demonstrations are displayed in Tahrir Square during ongoing protests in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, January 8, 2020. (Photo by Khalid Mohammed/AP Photo)





A woman takes part in the ongoing anti-government protests in Tahrir Square, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, February 1, 2020. (Photo by Khalid Mohammed/AP Photo)





Iraqi children play in the snow in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, February 11, 2020. (Photo by Ali Abdul Hassan/AP Photo)





A man walks on a road while it snows in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, February 11, 2020. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





In this Thursday, February 13, 2020 photo, women shop for Valentine's Day gifts in Najaf, Iraq. In recent years, Valentine's in Najaf has emerged as a field of contention. It pitted revelers who see in it harmless fun and personal freedom advocates against conservatives who view it as sacrilege--a foreign celebration that has no place in a holy city like Najaf. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/*AP Photo)





Members of Kurdish Peshmerga Special Forces demonstrate their skills during their graduation ceremony at a military camp in Soran district, in Erbil province, Iraq on February 12, 2020. (Photo by Azad Lashkari/Reuters)





Members of Kurdish Peshmerga Special Forces demonstrate their skills during their graduation ceremony at a military camp in Soran district, in Erbil province, Iraq on February 12, 2020. (Photo by Azad Lashkari/Reuters)





An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga female officer bites a Rabbit while demonstrating skills during a graduation ceremony in the Kurdish town of Soran, about 100 kilometres northeast of the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region Arbil, on February 12, 2020. (Photo by Safin Hamed/AFP Photo)





A policeman walks at West Qurna-1 oil field, which is operated by ExxonMobil, in Basra, Iraq, January 9, 2020. (Photo by Essam al-Sudani/Reuters)





Iraqi women wave colored smoke candles during the festival of colors, in the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf, Iraq on January 15, 2020. (Photo by Alaa al-Marjani/Reuters)





Iraqi protesters stand in the smoke of burning tires during an anti-government demonstration near the government building in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on January 21, 2020. Rallies have rocked Iraq since October but, fearing they would lose momentum amid spiralling regional tensions, protesters told the government it had one week to meet their demands or they would escalate their demonstrations. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Iraqi children wear protective masks as they walk near a religious school where the first coronavirus case was detected, following the outbreak of the coronavirus, in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, February 24, 2020. (Photo by Alaa al-Marjani/Reuters)