Storks sit at their nest on the top of electric pole in Berderes district of Duhok city, Iraq on March 20, 2024. (Photo by Ahsan Mohammed Ahmed Ahmed/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Iraqi Shiite men march in a street in the city of Nasiriyah in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province, to commemorate the 7th century killing of Imam Ali, during the Muslim month of Ramadan on March 30, 2024. Ali Bin Abi Talib, the cousin and son-in-law of Prophet Mohammed was the first Shiite Imam, and was assassinated in 661 at the Great Mosque of Kufa, located in present-day Iraq. (Photo by Asaad Niazi/AFP Photo)





Shi'ite worshippers place copies of the Koran on their heads, during the holy month of Ramadan at Imam Ali Shrine, in Najaf, Iraq on March 31, 2024. (Photo by Saba Kareem/Reuters)





A Shi'ite cleric places a copy of the Koran on his head during commemorations of the death of Imam Ali during the holy month of Ramadan at the shrine of Imam Ali in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, on April 1, 2024. (Photo by Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters)





People gather at Imam Ali Holy Shrine for a commemoration ceremony for the upcoming 1363rd death anniversary of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, cousin of the Prophet Muhammad and the fourth of the Rashidun, in Najaf, Iraq on April 1, 2024. (Photo by Karar Essa/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A drone view shows landmines in the desert which are left over from the Iraq-Iran war, at the Shatt al-Arab border region with Iran, in Basra, Iraq on April 2, 2024. (Photo by Essam al-Sudani/Reuters)





Raad al-Ghalibi, an inhabitant of the Chibayesh marshland in Iraq's southern Ahwar area of Dhi Qar province, sails home on his boat to prepare the Iftar fast-breaking meal on April 2, 2024, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Ghalibi lived in the marshland with his family and raised buffalos, but because of the drought in recent years, he sent his family to live in a more hospitable area in the country and remained in the marshland with his brother to look after his cattle. (Photo by Asaad Niazi/AFP Photo)





An Iraqi Beduin shepherd places a lamb in a donkey bag in the outskirts of Nahihat Al-Shabaka in the Najaf governorate on April 4, 2024. (Photo by Qassem al-Kaabi/AFP Photo)





Iraqi Christian worshippers celebrate mass in the 80-year-old Chaldean Catholic Church of Um al-Mauna, “Our Lady of Perpetual Help”, in Mosul in northern Iraq on April 5, 2024. With chants and joyous ululations, Iraqi Christians celebrated the restoration of the church on April 5, years after jihadists turned it into a religious police office. (Photo by Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP Photo)





Iraqis watch the sun rise at the Shatt al-Arab waterway in the southern Iraqi city of Basra early on April 7, 2023, during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





An Iraqi man sells dried fish ahead of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Basra on April 8, 2024. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





An aerial picture shows Muslim worshippers visiting the graves of relatives at the Wadi-al-Salam cemetery in Iraq's shrine city of Najaf, on the first day of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan on April 10, 2024. (Photo by Qassem al-Kaabi/AFP Photo)





Iraqi children gather for breakfast in one of the alleys of Basra's Zubair district in southern Iraq after the morning prayer on April 10, 2024 on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Muslim worshippers perform morning prayers to start Eid al-Fitr celebrations which mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at the Imam Ali shrine in Iraq's Najaf city on April 10, 2024. (Photo by Qassem al-Kaabi/AFP Photo)





Sunni worshippers exchange greetings after Eid al-Fitr prayers to mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan in Mosul, Iraq on April 10, 2024. (Photo by Khalid Al-Mousily/Reuters)





This aerial view shows a fisherman sitting in his boat after casting a net in the Shatt al-Arab river, formed at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in Iraq's southern city of Basra on April 15, 2024. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Iraqi Yazidis light candles outside the Temple of Lalish in a valley near the Kurdish city of Dohuk on April 16, 2024, during a ceremony marking the Yazidi New Year. The Yazidis, who number about 1.6 million, commemorate the arrival of light into the world during the new year celebrations. (Photo by Safin Hamid/AFP Photo)





Iraqi Yazidis light candles outside the Temple of Lalish in a valley near the Kurdish city of Dohuk on April 16, 2024, during a ceremony marking the Yazidi New Year. The Yazidis, who number about 1.6 million, commemorate the arrival of light into the world during the new year celebrations. (Photo by Safin Hamid/AFP Photo)





Suleiman Thaer, 19, drives a car he made from scrap materials, to help his father with his restaurant deliveries, in Mosul, Iraq, on May 4, 2024. (Photo by Khalid Al-Mousily/Reuters)





Firefighters douses the flames after a fire broke out at a marketplace in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish region, late on May 5, 2024. (Photo by Safin Hamid/AFP Photo)