A woman grieves while Shiite pilgrims gather outside the golden-domed shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, who died at the end of the 8th century, during the annual commemoration of the his death in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, February 17, 2023. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





Shiite worshippers carry a symbolic coffin at the golden-domed shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, who died at the end of the 8th century, during the annual commemoration of his death in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Feb.ruary 17, 2023. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





Dancers from the Baghdad Ballet Academy perform in a show entitled “The Four Realms” at Al-Rasheed theatre in Baghdad, on February 24, 2023. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)





This aerial photo shows the capsized hull of “Al Mansur”, the private yacht of toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in the Shatt al-Arab waterway in Basra, Iraq, Friday, February 24, 2023. (Photo by Nabil al-Jurani/AP Photo)





Protesters they wave Iraqi flags during protest against planned changes in electoral law, near the Iraq's parliament in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, February 27, 2023. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Baghdad to voice their dissent against a draft elections law that would increase the size of the country's electoral districts. (Photo by Hadi Mizban/AP Photo)





Members of a cycling club take to the roads for a 50-kilometer (31-mile) trip in Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, February 28, 2023. The group organizes rides weekly for scores of men and women who see bike-riding as a healthy way to relieve life's stress and for good company. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





In a long exposure photo, night sets on Firdos Square, the site where American soldiers downed a statue of Saddam Hussein two decades earlier in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, February 28, 2023. Today's Iraq is a world away from the terror that followed the U.S. invasion to depose Saddam Hussein. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Mohammed Zuad Khaman, center, prepares kebabs at his family's cafe in one of Baghdad's poorer neighborhoods along King Ghazi Street on Monday, February 27, 2023. Khaman is a talented footballer, but he says he cannot get an opportunity to play in any of Baghdad's amateur clubs because he does not have any “in” with the militia-related gangs that control sports teams in the city. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A man holds his cellphone near Al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, February 24, 2023. Two decades after a U.S.-led invasion, Iraq’s capital today is full of life and a sense of renewal, its residents enjoying a hopeful, peaceful interlude in a painful modern history. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Young men chat near Al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, February 24, 2023. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Youths gather along the Tigris River for a concert by rap artist OG Khalifa in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday February 25, 2023. One of the songs he performed mocks “sheikhs”, those who wield power in the new Iraq through wealth or political connections. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Women stand on the “martyrs' bridge” spanning the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, February 24, 2023. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A woman walks through the narrow streets of Alsadria neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, February 27, 2023. For Iraqis, the trauma from the war and U.S. occupation launched twenty years ago is undeniable – an estimated 300,000 Iraqis were killed between 2003 and 2019, according to the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, as were more than 8,000 U.S. military, contractors and civilians. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Pensioners, some of whom were prisoners of war during the first Gulf War, demonstrate outside the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, February 27, 2023. A U.S.-led war two decades earlier deposed a dictator whose imprisonment, torture and execution of dissenters had kept 20 million people living in fear for a quarter of a century. But it also broke what had been a unified state at the heart of the Arab world. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A man touches the door of the Office of the Martyr al-Sadr in Baghdad's Sadr City Friday, February 24, 2023. This working-class, conservative and largely Shiite suburb in eastern Baghdad is home to more than 1.5 million people. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Two students celebrate their graduation at the upscale Qalaat Baghdad restaurant complex built in a former palace of Saddam Hussein along the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, February 28, 2023. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A man makes his way to the al-Kadhimayn shrine in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday February 25, 2023. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A U.S.-branded muscle car speeds through the streets of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, February 24, 2023. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Youths gather along the Tigris River for a concert by rap artist OG Khalifa in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday February 25, 2023. One of the songs he performs mocks “sheikhs”, those who wield power in the new Iraq through wealth or political connections. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A man has his beard shaved by a barber in Fallujah, Iraq, on Thursday, March 2, 2023. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)