Female laborer, who cover their faces to protect themselves from the dust and sun, work at an adobe factory despite harsh weather conditions in Baghdad, Iraq on March 07, 2023. (Photo by Murtadha Al-Sudani/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Iraqi Kurds celebrate Nowruz, a Persian New Year, in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, Monday, March 20, 2023. The Kurdish in Iraq region won de facto self-rule in 1991 when the United States imposed a no-fly zone over it in response to Saddam's brutal repression of Kurdish uprisings. With American invasion 20 years ago much of Iraq fell into chaos, as occupying American forces fought an insurgency and as multiple political and sectarian communities vied to fill the power vacuum left in Baghdad. But the Kurds, seen as staunch allies of the Americans, strengthened their political position and courted foreign investments. (Photo by Hawre Khalid/Metrography via AP Photo)





Children hold “Ramadan lanterns” in their hands and move around the streets of Old City of Mosul during the holy month of Ramadan in Iraq's Mosul on March 22, 2021. (Photo by Ismael Adnan Yaqoob/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A man near the Nihran Bin Omar oil field north of Basra, Iraq, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. In the wake of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and toppling of Saddam Hussein, foreign investors flocked to the country's abundant oil fields and contracts were doled out, filling Iraqi state coffers. The new constitution drafted in 2005 states that the country's oil wealth belongs to the Iraqi people. (Photo by Nabil al-Jurani/AP Photo)





A traditional “Musaharati” beats his drum to wake observant Muslims up for their overnight suhur meal during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, near the Al-Nuri mosque in Mosul's old city on March 28, 2023. (Photo by Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP Photo)





A woman holds a food box distributed by volunteers from the Trust team during the holy month of Ramadan, on the outskirts of the capital Baghdad, Iraq on March 28, 2023. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





People with traditional clothes march as they attend the celebrations to mark 6773rd Akitu Festival in Duhok, Iraq on April 1, 2023. The Assyrian and Babylonian Akitu festival, celebrated in a period of thousands of years, symbolizes the arrival of the spring. (Photo by Ismael Adnan Yaqoob/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A woman prays during Palm Sunday Mass at the Grand Immaculate Church in Al-Hamdaniya, Iraq, on April 2, 2023. (Photo by Khalid Al-Mousily/Reuters)





An Iraqi girl tends sheep near in Al-Hamdaniya, Iraq on April 2, 2023. (Photo by Khalid Al-Mousily/Reuters)





A cow grazes in a field in front of the Nahr Bin Omar oil field and facility near Iraq's southern port city of Basra, on April 4, 2023. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Faithful break fast at the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, April 5, 2023, during a Islamic holy month of Ramadan. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP 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 April 9, 2023. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





A Shi'ite Muslim man reads the Koran during the holy month of Ramadan at Imam Ali Shrine in the holy city of Najaf,Iraq on April 10, 2023. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





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 April 10, 2023. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





A Christian worshipper attends Easter mass at the Armenian church in Baghdad, Iraq on April 9, 2023. (Photo by Tiba Sadeq/Reuters)





A Christian woman lights a candle during an Easter mass at the Armenian church in Baghdad, Iraq on April 9, 2023. (Photo by Tiba Sadeq/Reuters)





A Shi'ite pilgrim visits the shrine of Imam Ali during the holy month of Ramadan in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq on April 10, 2023. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





A Shiite worshiper attends Laylat al-Qadr, or Qadr Night prayer during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, in Najaf, Iraq, Tuesday, April 11, 2023. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





A Shi'ite worshipper prays while marking the death anniversary of Imam Ali at his shrine in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq on April 11, 2023. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





Shi'ite pilgrims pray while marking the death anniversary of Imam Ali, during the holy month of Ramadan at the shrine of Imam Ali in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq on April 12, 2023. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)