Firefighters from the Iraqi state-owned North Oil Company put out a fire at an oil well in the northern Khabbaz oil field, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) southwest of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on December 16, 2020. Iraqi authorities had blamed the Islamic State group (IS) for the fires which had been raging for a week. IS has previously set oil fields aflame in Iraq. (Photo by Marwan Ibrahim/AFP Photo)
