Water buffalos seek out water in the marshes of Chibayish following severe summertime shortages in Dhi Qar, Iraq, Saturday, November 19, 2022. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





Iraqi girls head out to school on boat in the marshes of Chibayish following a summer of severe water shortages in Dhi Qar, Iraq, Sunday, November 20, 2022. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





Razak Jabar makes tea inside his home in the marshes of Chibayish in Dhi Qar, Iraq, Sunday, November 20, 2022.. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





Iraqi buffalo herders in the marshes of Chibayish collect reeds as water buffalos drink water following a summer of severe water shortages in Dhi Qar province, Iraq, Sunday, November 20, 2022.. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





An Iraqi boy tends to water buffalos in the Chibayish marshes where animals have struggled and died due to high salinity amid water shortages in Dhi Qar, Iraq, Sunday, November 20, 2022.. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





A picture shows a view of the wreckage left by a gas leak explosion at a student dormitory building in Dohuk in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, early on November 22, 2022. - Five people died and 40 were injured in northern Iraq in a fire caused by a gas leak explosion at a student dormitory, authorities announced. The explosion occurred on November 21, 2022, at night when a rooftop gas tank leaked at a building housing a bakery and student accommodation in the Kurdish city of Dohuk. (Photo by Ismael Adnan/AFP Photo)





Mourners react during the funeral of people killed in a gas leak explosion at a student dormitory building, in Dohuk in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on November 22, 2022. Five people died and 40 were injured in northern Iraq in a fire caused by a gas leak explosion at a student dormitory, authorities announced. The explosion occurred on November 21, 2022, at night when a rooftop gas tank leaked at a building housing a bakery and student accommodation in the Kurdish city of Dohuk. (Photo by Ismael Adnan/AFP Photo)





Workers feed ducks during their rest near fish farming pond at the Euphrates River in Najaf, Iraq on November 30, 2022. (Photo by Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters)





Iraqi vendors show different kinds of fish to customers at fish market at in Najaf, Iraq on November 30, 2022. (Photo by Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters)





An Iraqi vendor shows different kinds of fish to customers at fish market at in Najaf, Iraq on November 30, 2022. (Photo by Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters)





Iraqi vendors show different kinds of fish to customers at fish market at in Najaf, Iraq on November 30, 2022. (Photo by Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters)





Female Kurdish Peshmerga fighters affiliated with Iran's separatist Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), are pictured at a base in an undisclosed location in the Arbil province, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on December 1, 2022. Iranian-Kurdish rebel groups have for decades sought refuge in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, but they have recently come under fresh fire amid weeks of protests in the neighbouring Islamic republic. (Photo by Safin Hamed/AFP Photo)





Female Kurdish Peshmerga fighters affiliated with Iran's separatist Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), are pictured at a base in an undisclosed location in the Arbil province, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on December 1, 2022. Iranian-Kurdish rebel groups have for decades sought refuge in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, but they have recently come under fresh fire amid weeks of protests in the neighbouring Islamic republic. (Photo by Safin Hamed/AFP Photo)





An Iraqi army cadet performs “the leap of faith” from a bridge in Baghdad, Iraq on December 3, 2022. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)





Iraqis sell Christmas goods at the Shorja market in the capital Baghdad, on December 14, 2022. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Members of Iraq's biker crew Bond Brothers MC take a break during a ride in the streets of the capital Baghdad on December 16, 2022. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Members of Iraq's biker crew Bond Brothers MC ride in the streets of the capital Baghdad on December 16, 2022. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Members of Iraq's biker crew Bond Brothers MC take a break during a ride in the streets of the capital Baghdad on December 16, 2022. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Members of Iraq's biker crew Bond Brothers MC take a break during a ride in the streets of the capital Baghdad on December 16, 2022. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Iraqi government officials destroy nearly six tons of drugs, some of which had been in storage for more than a decade, in Baghdad's Nahrawan area on December 18, 2022. Speaking in front of assembled media who were invited to cover the destruction near a military base outside Baghdad, he said it was the first “destruction operation of this magnitude” carried out since 2009. Security forces have intensified narcotics operations in recent years with near-daily announcements of drug seizures and arrests of traffickers. (Photo by Sabah Arar/AFP Photo)