Participants pose for a photographers during the Miss Iraq Pageant in Baghdad, December 19, 2015. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)

An Iraqi boy sits next to cats for sale at the Ghazl Market in central Baghdad on November 20, 2020. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)

Young dancers perform in a ballet adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland” during the Baghdad Ballet Academy's annual gala at Rasheed Theatre in Baghdad on August 29, 2025. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP Photo)

An Iraqi army cadet performs “the leap of faith” from a bridge in Baghdad, September 22, 2015. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)

Workers are pictured at a shisha manufacturing factory in Baghdad December 17, 2014. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)

An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga takes part in a graduation ceremony at the Zakho military academy in the Iraqi Kurdish town of Zakho, some 500 kilometres north of Baghdad, on January 30, 2018. (Photo by Safin Hamed/AFP Photo)

A man makes a mud oven to be used for baking bread at a workshop in Najaf, south of Baghdad, July 23, 2015. (Photo by Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters)

People use a board to travel on a flooded street after heavy rainfall in Baghdad, Iraq, October 31 2015. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)