Relatives of Iraqi civilians killed in a suspected jihadi attack two days earlier mourn over a casket during their funeral procession in the central holy shrine city of Najaf, on December 20, 2022. Suspected jihadists on motorbikes stormed a village north of Baghdad late yesterday and killed eight Iraqi civilians, officials said. There was no immediate claim for the attack but the village was a focus of resistance to the Islamic State group during its lightning advance through swathes of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in 2014. (Photo by Qassem Al-Kaabi/AFP Photo)





A woman walks by an unlicensed Starbucks cafe in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. Real Starbucks merchandise is imported from neighboring countries to stock the three cafes in the city, but all are unlicensed. Starbucks filed a lawsuit in an attempt to shut down the trademark violation but the case was shuttered after the owner allegedly threatened lawyers hired by the coffee house. (Photo by Ali Abdul Hassan/AP Photo)





A man smokes a cigarette as he sits at the entrance of a reed house known as a mudhif, along Iraq's southern marshes of Chibayish in Dhi Qar province on December 22, 2022. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





A woman prays during a mass on Christmas Eve at St. George Chaldean Church in Baghdad, Iraq, December 24, 2022. (Photo by Saba Kareem/Reuters)





Father Firas Dardar, patriarchal vicar for Basra and the Gulf, walks along the nave during the Christmas eve midnight mass at the Syriac Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart in Iraq's southern city of Basra on December 25, 2022. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Cars submerge in water as heavy rain floods the Southern part of the country in Najaf, Iraq on January 04, 2023. (Photo by Karar Essa/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Tourists in Basra take memorial photos with the Sinbad the Sailor which is chosen as the 25th Gulf Cup's icon, in Basra, Iraq on January 9, 2023. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





This picture taken on January 11, 2023 shows an aerial view of a man standing on a boat cruising in Iraq's southern marshes of Chibayish in Dhi Qar province. (Photo by Asaad Niazi/AFP Photo)





An aerial view shows Iraq supporters gathering in a designated fan zone in Iraq's southern city on January 16, 2023 to watch the Arabian Gulf Cup semi-final football match between Iraq and Qatar. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Iraq's Ibrahim Bayesh celebrates scoring their first goal with teammates during Arabian Gulf Cup25 semi final match between Iraq and Qatar at the Basra International Stadium in Iraq's southern city on January 16, 2023. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





A view shows boats on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab in Basra, Iraq on January 17, 2023. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





Wahid Sabri works at a metal recycling workshop in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, January 18, 2023. Adel earns about 20 US dollars per day. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





Iraqis fans wait inside the stadium before the Arabian Gulf Cup football final between Iraq and Oman at the Basra International Stadium in Basra, Iraq, Thursday, January 19, 2023. (Photo by Nabil al-Jurani/AP Photo)





Iraqi farmers transport reeds by boat on the waters of the southern Chibayish marshes in Dhi Qar province, on January 23, 2023, as water levels recover following a rainy period. (Photo by Asaad Niazi/AFP Photo)





Riot police scuffle with demonstrators protesting against the burning of a Koran in Stockholm outside the Swedish embassy in Baghdad on January 23, 2023. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Iraqi protesters demonstrate against the dinar's slide in value against the U.S. dollar, near the central bank in Baghdad, Iraq on January 25, 2023. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)





An Iraqi woman passes by members of anti-riot police forces as they stand guard near Iraqi activists protesting in front of the Central Bank of Iraq in Baghdad, Iraq, 25 January 2023. Thousands of activists and representatives of civil organizations demonstrated in front of the Central Bank of Iraq building in the al-Rasheed street, calling for a reduction in the currency exchange rate of Iraqi dinar against US dollar and activating deterrent legal measures to control banking transactions. (Photo by Ahmed Jalil/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Police officers gather as Iraqi protesters demonstrate against the dinar's slide in value against the U.S. dollar, near the central bank in Baghdad, Iraq on January 25, 2023. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)





Demonstrators carry a poster with a picture of Tiba Ali, a YouTube star who was recently killed by her father, in Diwaniya, Iraq, Sunday, February 5, 2023. Iraq's Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan on Friday announced that Tiba Ali was killed by her father on Jan. 31, who then turned himself into the police. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





An aerial picture shows a general view of the newly-excavated trench which may have contained an inn with a cooling area for food storage, at the site of the ancient city-state of Lagash, in Iraq's al-Shatra district of the southern Dhi Qar province on February 11, 2023. Italian and US archaeologists excavating in Lagash in southern Iraq have unearthed a Sumerian “tavern” old nearly 5,000 years old, complete with benches, a cooling system acting as a refrigerator, and bowls containing leftover food. (Photo by Asaad Niazi/AFP Photo)