Shiite pilgrims mark the holiday of Arbaeen, Friday, September 16, 2022, in Karbala, Iraq. The holiday marks the end of the forty-day mourning period after the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson in the 7th century. (Photo by Anmar Khalil)/AP Photo





Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims pray at the Imam al-Abbas shrine ahead of the holy Shi'ite ritual of Arbaeen in the holy city of Kerbala, Iraq on September 16, 2022. (Photo by Abdullah Dhiaa Al-Deen/Reuters)





Shiite Muslim devotees gather in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Karbala at the Imam Abu Al-Fadl Al-Abbas shrine on September 17, 2022, to mark the Arbaeen (“fourtieth” in Arabic), marking 40 days after the holy day of Ashura commemorating the seventh century killing of the Prophet Mohamed's grandson Imam Hussein ibn Ali. (Photo by Mohammed Sawaf/AFP Photo)





Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims take part in a mourning ceremony, during the holy Shi'ite ritual of Arbaeen, in the holy city of Kerbala, Iraq on September 17, 2022. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





Iraqis visit the book market of al-Huaish in the central city of Najaf, on September 22, 2022. (Photo by Ali Najafi/AFP Photo)





A dust storm engulfs the Great Ziggurat temple in the ancient city of Ur in Iraq's southern province of Dhi Qar near the city of Nasiriyah on September 25, 2022. (Photo by Asaad Niazi/AFP Photo)





Iraqi Kurds commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Kurdistan Region's independence referendum in Arbil, on September 25, 2022. (Photo by Safin Hamed/AFP Photo)





Security forces block a road during protests in Tahrir Square as anti-government protesters try to enter the Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq, 28 September 2022. Hundreds of Iraqis clashed with security forces as the Iraqi parliament was due to convene for the first time since deadly unrest in August and a sit-in protest by supporters of Shiite cleric and Sadrist movement leader Muqtada al-Sadr. (Photo by Ahmed Jalil/EPA/EFE)





Iraqi security forces take cover during clashes with supporters of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr clash in Tahrir Square in the centre of Iraq's capital Baghdad on September 28, 2022, during a parliament session in the nearby high-security Green Zone across the Tigris river. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





A protester, one of supporters of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr, waves an Iraqi national flag before Iraqi security forces deploying along the Jumhuriya (Republic) bridge leading to the capital Baghdad's high-security Green Zone on September 28, 2022, during a protest in Tahrir Square ahead of a parliament session. (Photo by Ahmad Al-rubaye/AFP Photo)





A boy poses for a picture amid clashes between supporters of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada and Iraqi security forces in Tahrir Square in the centre of Iraq's capital Baghdad on September 28, 2022, during a parliament session in the nearby high-security Green Zone across the Tigris river. Three rockets were fired at Baghdad's Green Zone, wounding seven security force personnel as parliament was holding its first session in two months, Iraq's security forces said. The parliament, at the centre of a months-long political paralysis, met for the first since deadly unrest in August to vote on the resignation of its speaker. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Anti-government protesters throw stones towards security forces during a demonstration in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, September 28, 2022. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





Iraqi anti-government protesters carry a wounded man during a demonstration in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, September 28, 2022. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





Demonstrators clash with security force during an anti-government protest, after a parliament session, in Baghdad, Iraq on September 28, 2022. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





Iraqi protesters run away from tear gas fired by security forces as they gather to mark the third anniversary of the anti-government protests in Baghdad, Iraq on October 1, 2022. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)





A protester affected by tear gas is carried during clashes with Iraqi security forces at a gathering marking the third anniversary of the anti-government protests in Baghdad, Iraq on October 1, 2022. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)





A protester hurls a tear gas canister during clashes with Iraqi security forces at a gathering marking the third anniversary of the anti-government protests in Baghdad, Iraq on October 1, 2022. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)





Firefighters remove debris to find bodies of people at the site of a collapsed building in Baghdad, Iraq on October 1, 2022. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





Emergency service personnel comfort a man at the scene of a building collapse in Baghdad's Karrada district, Iraq, 01 October 2022. The Civil Defense Directorate announced that they rescued 13 people trapped in the rubble of the four-storey medical clinic, with the rescue operation still ongoing. (Photo by Ahmed Jalil/EPA/EFE)





Emergency service personnel at the scene of a building collapse in Baghdad's Karrada district, Iraq, 01 October 2022. The Civil Defense Directorate announced that they rescued 13 people trapped in the rubble of the four-storey medical clinic, with the rescue operation still ongoing. (Photo by Ahmed Jalil/EPA/EFE)