An Iraqi female labourer directs a donkey-pulled cart loaded with clay bricks, at a factory in al-Kifl district on the outskirts of Hilla in central Iraq, on February 10, 2025. Economic hardship has pushed five percent of Iraq's children into labour, a UN study found in 2018, often in harsh conditions and at a risk to their health. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





A shepherd leads buffalos to drink from the Euphrates River in the Al-Ayfar region near the Iraqi city of Hilla in the central Babil governorate on February 17, 2025, where the foot-and-mouth disease has been reportedly killing livestock this month. (Photo by Karar Jabbar/AFP Photo)





An aerial view shows a pigeon keeper releasing his pigeons from their coop in Iraq's southern city of Basra on February 22, 2025. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Shiite worshippers gather at the golden-domed shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, who died at the end of the eighth century, during holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





Dervishes ululate at the sound of drums during a Sufi Muslim ceremony of al-Talia al-Kestezania to commemorate in the month of Ramadan in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





A girl walks at her home after heavy rainfall in Baghdad, Iraq on March 9, 2025. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)





A worker produces charcoal, widely used for a grilling, as demand for it increases during the holy month of Ramadan in Mosul, Iraq, on March 15, 2025. (Photo by Khalid al-Mousily/Reuters)





Shiites break the fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, Iraq, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





Thousands flock to the Tomb of Prophet Ali to commemorate the 1364th anniversary of his martyrdom in Najaf, Iraq on March 19, 2025. On the night coinciding with Laylat al-Qadr, which is accepted by Shiites as one of the 19th, 21st and 23rd days of Ramadan, many Iraqis worshipped and lamented collectively. (Photo by Karar Essa/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Shiite Muslim men mourn during a ceremony to commemorate the seventh century killing of Imam Ali, in the city of Nasiriyah in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province, on March 20, 2025. 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)





Hundreds climb Akre with torches in hands within Newroz celebrations in Duhok, Iraq on March 20, 2025. (Photo by Muhammet Bamerni/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Shiite Muslim devotees sit in prayer while having copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, placed on the head as they attend mass prayers for Laylat al-Qadr, or the Night of Destiny, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Great Mosque of Kufa in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Kufa on March 23, 2025. (Photo by Qassem Al-Kaabi/AFP Photo)





Crescent moon appears in the sky, rising above the Zaniary Tower, the highest point in the city of Erbil, Iraq on March 24, 2025. (Photo by Ahsan Mohammed Ahmed Ahmed/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A Sunni Muslim child plays in the rain as she arrives for Eid al-Fitr prayers at the shrine of cleric Sheikh Abdul Qadir al-Gailani in Baghdad, Iraq on March 31, 2025. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





A young girl rides a merry-go round at an amusement park in Basra, during Eid al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, on April 2, 2025. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Actors perform during the opening ceremony for the International Day for the Babylonian Civilization held in the archaeological site of Babylon, Iraq, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





Spanish flamenco dancer Anabel Veloso performs on flamenco night at the Iraqi National Theatre in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





A wheelchair-bound person is assisted by others to cross to a traffic island in the middle of a road in low visibility conditions amdist a massive dust storm in Iraq's southern city of Basra on April 14, 2025. Around 1,500 people were sent to hospitals with respiratory problems on April 14 as a storm hit central and southern Iraq, health officials said. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Members of the Yazidi community celebrate Charshama Sor (Red Wednesday) marking the New Year of the Yazidi, at the Lalish Temple in the Shekhan district of the Nineveh Governorate in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, 15 April 2025. The Lalish Temple is considered the main temple of the Yazidi religion and the New Year celebrations start on the eve of the day before Charshama Sor, which is on the third Wednesday of April. (Photo by Gailan Haji/EPA/EFE)