A member of the Sulaymaniyah paragliding team glides by the setting crescent moon after a launch from Mount Azmar over Iraq's northeastern city of Sulaymaniyah in the autonomous Kurdistan region on July 1, 2022. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





An Iraqi member of a demining squad wearing safety equipment takes part in an operation to clear mines planted by Islamic State militants, in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq on July 4, 2022. (Photo by Khalid al-Mousily/Reuters)





Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (ICTS) members take part in the tactical exercise (Lions' Leap) in Baghdad, Iraq, July 11, 2022. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





An Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (ICTS) member with a dog of Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service working take part during a tactical exercise (Lions' Leap) for Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (ICTS) in Baghdad, Iraq, July 11, 2022. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





Supporters of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gather for Friday prayer in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq on July 15, 2022. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





A man chants slogans during an open-air Friday prayers in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 15, 2022. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





This aerial view shows a healthy palm tree standing in a damaged grove in the town of Badra in Iraq's eastern province of Wasit near the Iranian border, on July 5, 2022. Once known as the “country of 30 million palm trees”, and home to 600 varieties of the fruit, Iraq's date production has been blighted by decades of conflict and environmental challenges, including drought, desertification and salinisation. (Photo by Asaad Niazi/AFP Photo)





Aman climbs a palm tree to harvest dates in the town of Badra in Iraq's eastern province of Wasit near the Iranian border, on July 5, 2022. Once known as the “country of 30 million palm trees”, and home to 600 varieties of the fruit, Iraq's date production has been blighted by decades of conflict and environmental challenges, including drought, desertification and salinisation. (Photo by Asaad Niazi/AFP Photo)





This picture shows damaged palm trees in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, on June 26, 2022. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Ahmad al-Awad harvests dates from one of his palm trees in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, on July 9, 2022.. (Photo by Asaad Niazi/AFP Photo)





Members of the Sabean Mandaeans, a pre-Christian sect that follows the teachings of John the Baptist, perform their rituals in the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 16, 2022. The Sabean Mandaeans are marking the new year which they celebrate as a five-day holiday. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





A water buffalo is pictured across from the Nahr Bin Omar oilfield in Iraq's southern province of Basra on July 18, 2022. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





An Iraqi man cool himself off in a spray of water during a sweltering hot day at the Al-Khilani square in central Baghdad, Iraq, 19 July 2022. Baghdad suffers a heatwave as temperatures rose to more than 50 degrees Celsius, amid an acute shortage of electricity. (Photo by Ahmed Jalil/EPA/EFE)





The coffin carrying Abbas Abdul Hussein, a 30-year-old victim of an artillery strike, is received by his family in Baghdad, to later lay him to rest in Najaf city, Thursday, July 21, 2022, in Baghdad, Iraq. Hussein was on his honeymoon, five days after his wedding, when at least four artillery shells struck the resort area of Barakh in the Zakho district in the Iraqi semi-autonomous Kurdish-run region, killing nine people. (Photo by Ali Jabar/AP Photo)





Iraqis visit the spiral Malwiya minaret, a mid-ninth century treasured Iraqi national monument, within the Samarra Archaeological City, in Samarra, north of Baghdad, on July 26, 2022. The 50m helicoidally tower of sun-dried and baked brick, modelled on ancient ziggurats that was built to symbolise the power of Islam during the Abbasid caliphate, was listed UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007. (Photo by Ismael Adnan/AFP Photo)





Iraqi protesters breach Baghdad's parliament in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July. 27, 2022. The majority of the protesters were followers of influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The demonstrators, all of them men, were seen walking on tables of the parliament floor, sitting in the chairs of lawmakers and waving Iraqi flags. (Photo by Ali Abdul Hassan/AP Photo)





Supporters of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr climb the blast walls surrounding Baghdad's highly fortified Green Zone during protest against corruption in Baghdad, Iraq on July 27, 2022. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





A supporters of the Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr flashes the victory sign as demonstrators gather inside the Iraqi parliament in the capital Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, as they protest at a rival bloc's nomination for prime minister, on July 27, 2022. The protests are the latest challenge for oil-rich Iraq, which remains mired in a political and a socioeconomic crisis despite elevated global energy prices. Sadr's bloc emerged from elections in October as the biggest parliamentary faction, but was still far short of a majority and, nine months on, deadlock persists over the establishment of a new government. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Supporters of the Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr take “selfie” pictures as they gather inside the Iraqi parliament in the capital Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, as they protest at a rival bloc's nomination for prime minister, on July 27, 2022. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Supporters of the Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr gather inside the Iraqi parliament in the capital Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, as they protest at a rival bloc's nomination for prime minister, on July 27, 2022. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)