A boy swims to cool off amid high temperatures near Nahr Bin Umar oil field, in Basra, Iraq on June 30, 2024. (Photo by Mohammed Aty/Reuters)





An Iranian voter participates in the run-off presidential election between Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili, at the Iranian embassy, in Baghdad, Iraq on July 5, 2024. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





Iraqi farmer Omar Al-zubaai climbs a palm tree to check the dates ahead of the harvest season, at his farm in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, Iraq, 07 July 2024. The date harvesting season in Iraq is around late July and early August. The Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture announced that it has succeeded in increasing the number of date palms in Iraq from 12 million to 17 million across all provinces, expecting abundance in production during the current year. (Photo by Ahmed Jalil/EPA)





Shiite Muslims take part in a mourning ritual in Iraq's southern city of Basra late on July 7, 2024 on the first night of the Muslim month of Muharram in the lead-up to Ashura. Ashura is a 10-day mourning period commemorating the seventh century killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





This aerial view shows a flock of camels grazing in the Khamisiyah area southeast of Baghdad, on July 9, 2024. (Photo by Karrar Jabbar/AFP Photo)





Shiite Muslim devotees take part in a mourning ritual during Ashura, a 10-day period commemorating the seventh century killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein, at the Imam Abu Al-Fadl Al-Abbas shrine in Iraq's central holy city of Karbala on July 13, 2024. (Photo by Mohammed Sawaf/AFP Photo)





People lit torches and sing along laments in a mourning ritual to commemorate Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein and his 72 loyal companions, who died at the battle of Karbala, during the month of Muharram on the Islamic calendar in Najaf, Iraq on July 14, 2024. (Photo by Karar Essa/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims reach out to touch the tomb of Imam Hussein located inside the Imam Hussein shrine ahead of Ashura, the holiest day on the Shi'ite Muslim calendar, in the holy city of Kerbala, Iraq on July 15, 2024. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)





Shi'ite Muslims gather ahead of Ashura, the holiest day on the Shi'ite Muslim calendar, in Najaf, Iraq on July 15, 2024. (Photo by Alaa al-Marjani/Reuters)





Shiite Muslims re-enact the seventh century battle of Karbala during activities marking the holy day of Ashoura, in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July. 17, 2024. Ashoura is the annual Shiite Muslim commemoration marking the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq, in the 7th century. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





People watch as Shiite Muslims re-enact the Battle of Karbala as they mark the peak of Ashura, a 10-day period commemorating the seventh century killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein, in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, on July 17, 2024. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Shiite Muslims take part in ceremony during the peak of Ashura, a 10-day period commemorating the seventh century killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein, at the shrine of Imam Hussein in Iraq's holy city of Karbala, on July 17, 2024. (Photo by Mohammed Sawaf/AFP Photo)





Performers stage reenactment of the historic Battle of Karbala, in which Imam al-Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, and his 72 companions who were martyred, on Ashura day, the 10th day of the month of Muharram, in Nasiriyah, Iraq on July 17, 2024. (Photo by Haidar Mohammed Ali/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Buffaloes wade in the water in the Chibayish marshes in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province, home to a Marsh Arab culture that goes back millennia, on July 19, 2024. (Photo by Asaad Niazi/AFP Photo)





An Iraqi fisherman ties his boat to a wooden plank in the Shatt al-Arab river, formed at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in Iraq's southern city of Basra, on August 12, 2024. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Iraqis Muslim women honour Ruqayyah, the daughter of the Prophet Mohamed's grandson Imam Hussein, as they march from Nasiriyah in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province toward the holy city of Karbala toward the holy city of Karbala to partake in the upcoming Arbaeen religious festival on August 12, 2024. (Photo by Asaad Niazi/AFP Photo)





Shiite Muslim pilgrims march with banners towards the shrine city of Karbala ahead of the Arbaeen commemorations that mark the end of the 40-day mourning period for the seventh century killing of the Prophet Mohamed's grandson Imam Hussein ibn Ali, in the city of Nasiriyah in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province on August 14, 2024. (Photo by Asaad Niazi/AFP Photo)





A shiite Muslim pilgrim marches with a banner towards the shrine city of Karbala ahead of the Arbaeen commemorations that mark the end of the 40-day mourning period for the seventh century killing of the Prophet Mohamed's grandson Imam Hussein ibn Ali, near the city of Hilla, in the central Babil Governorate on August 17, 2024. (Photo by Karar Jabbar/AFP Photo)





The moon rises in Najaf, Iraq on August 19, 2024. At its closest point, the full moon can appear up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter than the faintest moon of the year. (Photo by Karar Essa/Anadolu via Getty Images)





An aerial view of a woman bakes bread at Iraq's southern Chibayish marshes in Nasiriyah, Iraq, Friday, September 6. 2024. Deep within Iraq's celebrated marsh lands, conservationists are sounding alarm bells and issuing a stark warning: Without quick action, the UNESCO protected site could all but wither away. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)