Boys herd buffalo towards the Euphrates River in the village of Umm Khashm, on the outskirts of Najaf, Iraq on July 2, 2023. The International Organization for Migration (IMO) says that as of last year, 62,000 people had been displaced across Iraq due to drought. Many moved from the countryside to cities with high unemployment rates and poor services. (Photo by Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters)





A supporter of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr holds a copy of the Koran, Islam's holy book, as he and others gather for a protest outside the Swedish embassy in Baghdad on July 20, 2023. Protesters set fire to Sweden's embassy in the Iraqi capital early on July 20 ahead of a planned burning of a Koran in Sweden. Swedish authorities approved an assembly to be held later on July 20 outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm, where organisers plan to burn a copy of the Koran as well as an Iraqi flag. (Photo by AAhmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Iraqis throw stones during clashes with security forces in front of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 20, 2023. The protest was in response to the burning of Quran in Sweden. (Phoot by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr raise up his portrait and that of his late father Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr along with copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, and Iraqi national flags during a rally after the weekly Friday prayers denouncing the burning of the Koran in Sweden in the eastern Sadr City suburb of Baghdad on July 21, 2023. (Photo by Murtaja Lateef/AFP Photo)





Iraqi demonstrators carry copies of the Koran and chant slogans during a protest near the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, 22 July 2023. Hundreds of protesters on 22 July attempted to storm Baghdad's Green Zone, a heavily fortified area housing foreign embassies and Iraqi government offices, after a copy of the Koran had been allegedly burned the previous day in the Danish capital Copenhagen by an ultranationalist group. The incident came two days after demonstrators angered by the planned burning of the Islamic holy book in Sweden stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad. (Photo by Ahmed Jalil/EPA)





A man cools off with a mist dispenser set up on al-Jumhuriya street in central Baghdad amid soaring temperatures, on July 23, 2023. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Iraqi Shiite men attend the mourning procession within Muharram month devotees commemorate the martyrdom of Prophet Muhammad's grandson Imam Hussein (Husayn Ibn Ali) along with 72 loyal companions, who was killed in the battle of Karbala in Basra, Iraq on July 24, 2023. (Photo by Haidar Mohammed Ali/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Demonstrators protest in front of the Iraqi central bank as currency plummets against the U.S. dollar, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July. 26, 2023. Over the past two days, the market rate of the dollar jumped from 1,470 dinar per dollar to 1,570 dinar per dollar. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





Shiite worshippers visit the holy shrine of Imam Abbas during Muharram processions in Karbala, Iraq, Saturday, July. 29, 2023. Muharram is among the holiest months for Shiite Muslims and marks Ashoura, commemorating the 7th century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussein. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





People revive the battle of Karbala during commemoration of the martyrdom of Prophet Muhammad's grandson Imam Hussain (Husayn Ibn Ali) and his 72 loyal companions, who were killed in the battle, in Suq al-Shuyukh district of Dhi Qar, Iraq on July 29, 2023. (Photo by Haidar Mohammed Ali/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A ballerina girl performs on the stage in in Baghdad, Iraq on August 05, 2023. (Photo by Murtadha Al-Sudani/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A boy stands in front of a fan on a street to cool off during high temperatures, in Baghdad, Iraq on August 6, 2023. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)





In this aerial view, Shiite Muslim pilgrims walk in the Gulf waters and a muddy shore, at the start of their march from Iraq's southern city of al-Faw toward Karbala, ahead of the Arbaeen religious festival on August 13, 2023. Each year, pilgrims converge in large numbers to the holy Iraqi cities of Najaf and Karbala ahead of Arbaeen, which marks the 40th day after Ashura, commemorating the seventh century killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





A Siberian tiger cools off amid sweltering temperatures at the Baghdad Zoo in the Iraqi capital on August 8, 2023. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





An Iraqi boy cools down his buffaloes in wastewater filling the dried-up Diyala river, which was a tributary of the Tigris river, east of Baghdad on August, 22, 2023. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





Iranian Muslim pilgrims arrive at the Shalamijah border crossing in the southern city of Basra on August 22, 2023, as they make their way to the central Iraqi shrine city of Karbala to take part in the Arbaeen religious festival which marks the 40th day after Ashura commemorating the seventh century killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson, Imam Hussein. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





Shiite pilgrims mark the holiday of Arbaeen on Tuesday, September 5, 2023, in Karbala, Iraq. The holiday marks the end of the forty-day mourning period after the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, in the 7th century. (Photo by Anmar Khalil/AP Photo)





Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims take part in a mourning ceremony, during the holy Shi'ite ritual of Arbaeen, in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq on September 5, 2023. (Photo by Alaa al-Marjani/Reuters)





Shiite Muslim devotees reach to receive a blessing from the tomb of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Mohammed's grandson, at the Imam's shrine in Iraq's central holy city of Karbala on September 6, 2023, during the Arbaeen religious festival commemorating his seventh century killing. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)





A view of the Mosul Dam, which was built on a loose ground eroded by water, in Mosul, Iraq on September 21, 2023. The dam has been maintained since 1985 however due to floods happened following the Storm Daniel in Libya, there is an allegedly risk of collapsing the Mosul Dam. (Photo by Ismael Adnan Yaqoob/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)