Iraqi youth swim in the Shatt Al-Arab river by the port of Maqil amid a heatwave in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on June 29, 2021. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Coronavirus patients wait for treatment at a hospital in Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, July 14, 2021. Infections in Iraq have surged to record highs amid a third wave spurred by the more aggressive delta variant, and long-neglected hospitals suffering the effects of decades of war are overwhelmed with severely ill patients, many of them young people. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





A coronavirus patient receives treatment at a hospital in Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





People and security forces gather at the site of a bombing in Wahailat market in Sadr City, Iraq, Monday, July 19, 2021. A roadside bomb attack targeted a Baghdad suburb Monday, killing at least 18 people and wounding dozens of others at a crowded market, Iraqi security officials said. (Photo by Khalid Mohammed/AP Photo)





A member of Iraqi security forces inspects the site of an explosion in Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq on July 19, 2021. (Photo by Wissam Al-Okaili/Reuters)





Mourners accompany victims of a Monday bombing at a Baghdad market that was busy with shoppers a day before the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, before their burial in Najaf, Iraq, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. ​Iraqi medical officials said the Monday bomb attack in Sadr City, a Baghdad suburb, killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens of others. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





Fatima Fawzi, a jiu-jitsu practitioner, washes spoons at home in Baghdad, Iraq on June 16, 2021. (Photo by Saba Kareem/Reuters)





Iraqi Shiite men beat their chests as they take part in a mourning ritual, during the month of Muharram on the Islamic calendar, leading up to the day of Ashura, in Baghdad, Iraq during the night of August 14, 2021. The Shiite Muslim religious commemoration of Ashura, which includes a ten-day mourning period starting on the first day of Muharram, marks the seventh-century slaying of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein and his 72 loyal companions in Karbala. (Photo by Murtadha Al-Sudani/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Iraqi Shiite Muslims take part in a religious procession during the month of Muharram leading up to the mourning day of Ashura, in Baghdad's northern district of Kadhimiya on August 13, 2021. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Muslims perform Eid al-Adha prayer at Abu Hanifa Mosque in Baghdad, Iraq on July 20, 2021. (Photo by Murtadha Al-Sudani/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Protesters burn tires to block roads during a demonstration demanding the return of electricity in Basra, southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 2, 2021. A widespread power outage is hitting Iraq as temperatures reach scorching levels, affecting even affluent areas in the capital and stirring concerns of widespread unrest. (Photo by Nabil al-Jurani/AP Photo)





People sit near a coffin with a body bag containing the remains of a victim after a fire broke out at al-Hussain coronavirus hospital in Nassiriya, Iraq, July 13, 2021. The death toll from a fire that tore through a coronavirus hospital in southern Iraq rose to 66, health officials said on Tuesday, as authorities faced accusations of negligence from grieving relatives and a doctor who works there. (Photo by Khalid al-Mousily/Reuters)





People stand near body bags containing the remains of victims after a fire broke out at al-Hussain coronavirus hospital in Nassiriya, Iraq, July 13, 2021. (Photo by Essam al-Sudani/Reuters)





Mourners carry the coffin of a victim, who was killed in a fire that broke out at al-Hussain coronavirus hospital in Nassiriya, during a funeral in Najaf, Iraq, July 13, 2021. (Photo by Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters)





Mourners react next to the coffins of victims, who were killed in a fire that broke out at al-Hussain coronavirus hospital in Nassiriya, during a funeral in Najaf, Iraq, July 13, 2021. (Photo by Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters)





Iraqi Muslims girls attend Eid al-Adha prayers on the street outside Abu Hanifa mosque in Baghdad Adhamiya district,Iraq, July 20, 2021. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





A man cools off from the summer heat under an open air shower to beat the heat in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 1, 2021. Iraq's government declared Thursday an official holiday in Baghdad due to a scorching heatwave. (Photo by Khalid Mohammed/AP Photo)





A girl carries food distributed by a charitable organization in Mosul, Iraq on August 10, 2021. (Photo by Khalid Al-Mousily/Reuters)





Iraqi boys swim with a herd of buffaloes in the Diyala River in the Faziliah district, east of Baghdad on August 2, 2021, amid extreme summer temperatures. As Iraq bakes under a blistering summer heat wave, its hard-scrabble farmers and herders are battling severe water shortages that are killing their animals, fields and way of life. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)