An aerial view shows fog surrounding the Mosul Grand Mosque in the northern Iraqi city early on December 28, 2023. (Photo by Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP Photo)





Iraqis gather to celebrate the New Year around a Christmas tree in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, December 31, 2023. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





Iraqis watch fireworks explode during the New Year's Day celebrations in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, January 1, 2024. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





Members of an Iraqi Shiite militant group stand outside the headquarters of the Popular Mobilization Force after it was hit by an airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, January 4, 2024. The Popular Mobilization Force – a coalition of militias that is nominally under the control of the Iraqi military – announced in a statement that its deputy head of operations in Baghdad, Mushtaq Taleb al-Saidi, or “Abu Taqwa”, had been killed in the strike. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)





Iraqi Army helicopters fly in formation at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier during the Army Day celebrations in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, January 6, 2024. The Iraqi Army was activated on January 6, 1921 while under British rule. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/Pool via Reuters)





Police snipers on a pick-up parade during a ceremony marking the Police Day in Baghdad on January 9, 2024. (Photo by Murtada Al-Sudani/Pool via AFP Photo)





Members of the Iraqi police parade during a ceremony marking the Police Day in Baghdad on January 9, 2024. (Photo by Murtada Al-Sudani/Pddl via/ AFP Photo)





Interior Ministry Special Forces parade during a ceremony marking the Police Day in Baghdad on January 9, 2024. (Photo by Murtada Al-Sudani/Pool via AFP Photo)





Shiite Muslim worshippers gather at the holy shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala, Iraq, Friday, January 12, 2024. (Phoot by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





Shiite Muslim pilgrims visit the holy shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala, Iraq, Friday, January 12, 2024. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





Military vehicles belonging to the Iraqi security forces carry body remains of people from the minority Yazidi, who were killed by Islamic State militants, after they were exhumed from a mass grave in Sinjar, during a funeral ceremony in Baghdad, Iraq on January 22, 2024. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)





Members of the Iraqi Honor Guard stand at attention during a solemn funeral ceremony for the 41 victims from the Yazidi minority, who were executed by Islamic State (IS) group militants in 2014, at the Al-Shaheed Monument (aka the Martyr's Memorial) in Baghdad, on January 22, 2024. The victims of the August 2014 massacre, carried out in the Sinjar region by IS group militants, have been recently identified through DNA tests. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





A Muscle car is shown during Iraq's drifting competition for modified car in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, January 26, 2024. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





An Iraqi camel herder poses in the desert of Samawa in Iraq's southern province of al-Muthanna on January 27, 2024. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Firefighters work on extinguishing the fire broke out in an oil refinery on the Erbil-Gwer road in Erbil, Iraq on January 30, 2024. The fire, which was brought under control and extinguished with the intervention of Erbil fire brigades, caused material damage. (Photo by Ahsan Mohammed Ahmed Ahmed/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Members of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation), carry portraits of people killed the previous day in US strikes in western Iraq, ahead of their funeral procession in Baghdad on January 4, 2024. Deadly US strikes on Iran-backed forces in Syria and Iraq drew sharp condemnation from the region, after President Joe Biden vowed further action in response to the killing of three US soldiers in Jordan on January 28. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





A Shiite pilgrim touches the door of the shrine of 8th-century Imam Musa al-Kadhim to commemorate his death in the Kadhimiya district north of Baghdad on February 5, 2024. Pilgrims from various Iraqi provinces undertake a march on foot to reach the shrine in the capital to commemorate the 795 CE death of Imam Musa, who is believed to have been poisoned by agents of the then ruler Harun al-Rashid. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





A Shi'ite Muslim man holds a child as he reacts during a commemoration marking the death anniversary of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, in Baghdad, Iraq, on February 6, 2024. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)





Civil defense members gather at the site of a burned vehicle targeted by a U.S. drone strike in east Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, February 7, 2024. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





Fighters from the Popular Mobilization Forces, carry the coffin of a commander from the Kataib Hezbollah paramilitary group, Wissam Muhammad Sabir Al-Saadi, known as Abu Baqir Al-Saadi, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, February 8, 2024. The U.S. military says a U.S. drone strike blew up a car in the Iraqi capital Wednesday night, killing the high-ranking commander. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)