A dried Sawa Lake is surrounded by a dry bed in Iraq, Monday, April 10, 2023. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





A Shiite Muslim worshipper places the Koran on his head during prayer rituals on “Laylat al-Qadr”, one of the holiest nights during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at the Grand Mosque of Kufa, east of Iraq's central holy city of Najaf in the early hours of April 14, 2023. Laylat al-Qadr (Night of Destiny) marks the night Muslims believe the first verses of the Koran were revealed to Prophet Muhammad by the angel Gabriel in the seventh century. (Photo by Qassem Al-Kaabi/AFP Photo)





Iraqi Yazidis visit the Lalish Temple, on the day of a ceremony for the occasion of Red Wednesday, the celebration of the Yazidi New Year, in Shekhan district, in Duhok province, Iraq on April 18, 2023. (Photo by Ari Jalal/Reuters)





Shiites observe the crescent moon to determine the start of the tenth Islamic month of Shawwal, which marks the end of a month-long fasting of Ramadan and the beginning of the Eid al-Fitr festival in Najaf, Iraq, Thursday, April 20, 2023. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





Iraqis eat morning breakfast on the first day of Eid Al-Fitr holiday in Basra, Iraq, Friday, April 21, 2023. Eid Al-Fitr marks the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. (Photo by Nabil al-Jurani/AP Photo)





A mean sells plastic bottles at Wadi al-Salaam, or Valley of Peace, Shiite cemetery on the first day of Eid al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, in Najaf, Iraq, Saturday, April 22, 2023. Wadi al-Salam is the world's biggest cemetery. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





Shiites woman attend Eid al-Fitr prayer at Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, Iraq, Saturday, April 22, 2023. Eid al-Fitr holiday marks the end of the holy Islamic month off Ramadan. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





An Iraqi girl smiles during a ride in an amusement park in Hila, Iraq, Sunday, April 23, 2023 during Eid al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





Iraqi security forces deploy near the gate of the green zone in Baghdad during a demonstration marking Labour Day on May 1, 2023, to demand a law establishing a salary grid to reduce pay inequalities for around 3 million government employees in the country. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





A boy is seen on a camel while the Iraqi breeders graze their animals during the start of spring at the village of Bajilor in Duhok, Iraq on May 06, 2023. (Photo by Muhammet Bamerni/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A medical team from Iraq's Health Ministry veterinarian department carries on a disinfection campaign on cows as a precaution against the spread of Congo haemorrhagic fever, at a farm in the southwestern Baghdad suburb of al-Bouaitha on May 22, 2023. At least 13 people have died in Iraq since the start of the year from a viral tick-borne disease transmitted to humans from livestock, the health ministry said on May 13. Nearly 100 other people have been infected by Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in Iraq, where the disease claimed many more victims last year. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Youths swim in the Shatt al-Arab waterway, formed at the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in Iraq's southern city of Basra, on May 23, 2023. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





An artist works on semi-assembled wax figures to be displayed in a new museum in Basra, Iraq on June 12, 2023. (Photo by Mohammed Aty/Reuters)





Human wax figures to build scenes depicting traditional life in a new museum are seen in Basra, Iraq on June 12, 2023. (Photo by Mohammed Aty/Reuters)





Iraqi-Kurdish Peshmerga officers take part in a graduation ceremony in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish region, on June 22, 2023. (Photo by Safin Hamid/AFP Photo)





A man equipped with a searchlight scans for recyclable material for resale at a landfill in Iraq's southern city of Basra late at night on June 22, 2023. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





An aerial view taken on June 23, 2023, shows the drying-up marshes of Chibayish in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province. (Photo by Asaad Niazi/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 28, 2023. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)





Iraqi children play as they celebrate the first day of Eid al-Adha in the old city of Mosul, Iraq on June 28, 2023. (Photo by Khalid Al-Mousily/Reuters)





A child rides a horse as Iraqi people celebrate the first day of Eid al-Adha in the old city of Mosul, Iraq on June 28, 2023. (Photo by Khalid Al-Mousily/Reuters)