Aras Abid, the sole survivor from his 12-member family from a gas attack ordered by Saddam Hussein in 1988, shows a picture of his dead mother on his phone, in the Kurdish town of Halabja, near Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. February 19, 2023. REUTERS/Amina Ismail 

Faiza Sarhan, 50, a member of the ancient Sabean Mandaean religion, stands in front of a cultural centre that she runs for her community in Erbil, Iraq February 20, 2023. REUTERS/Amina Ismail 

Khanim Ahmed Mohammed, the sole survivor of her family from a gas attack ordered by Saddam Hussein in 1988, sits in her home during an interview by Reuters in the Kurdish town of Halabja, near Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. February 19, 2023. REUTERS/Amina Ismail 

Iraqi former footballer Ahmed Nasser shows a picture of himself in the hospital in 2007 after a bomb attack in Baghdad that cost his legs, in Baghdad, Iraq February 5, 2023. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani 

Aras Abid, the sole survivor of his 12-member family from a gas attack ordered by Saddam Hussein in 1988, sits by the grave where he buried his entire family, in the Kurdish town of Halabja, near Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. February 19, 2023. REUTERS/Amina Ismail 

Khanim Ahmed Mohammed, the sole survivor of her family from a gas attack ordered by Saddam Hussein in 1988, sits with her husband at their home in the Kurdish town of Halabja, near Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. February 19, 2023. REUTERS/Amina Ismail 

Khanim Ahmed Mohammed, the lone survivor of her family from a gas attack Saddam Hussein ordered in 1988, strolls alongside her son at the Halbja museum in the Kurdish town of Halabja, near Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. February 19, 2023. REUTERS/Amina Ismail 

Iraqi former footballer Ahmed Nasser looks at the stadium where he used to play football before losing his legs in a bomb attack in 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq February 5, 2023. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani 

Majid Mohammed looks at pictures of his son who disappeared after the Camp Speicher massacre in 2014, where some of the hundreds of Iraqi military recruits who were abducted from Camp Speicher by Islamic State militants in June 2014 are believed to have been murdered, as his wife, Nadia Jasim, reacts during an interview with Reuters, in Baghdad, Iraq, February 4, 2023. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad 

Nadia Jasim looks at pictures of her son who disappeared after the Camp Speicher massacre in 2014, where some of the hundreds of Iraqi military recruits who were abducted from Camp Speicher by Islamic State militants in June 2014 are believed to have been murdered in Baghdad, Iraq, February 4, 2023. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad 

Ikhlas Talal, 43, shows a picture of her husband on the phone, who went missing as their area was liberated from Islamic State in 2016, in Saqlawiya, Iraq, February 2, 2023. REUTERS/Saba Kareem 

Ikhlas Hamid Talal, 43, whose husband went missing as their area was liberated from Islamic State in 2016, sits at her house in Saqlawiya, Iraq, February 2, 2023. REUTERS/Saba Kareem 

Ikhlas Hamid Talal, 43, whose husband went missing as their area was liberated from Islamic State in 2016, sits at her house in Saqlawiya, Iraq, February 2, 2023. REUTERS/Saba Kareem 

Ikhlas Hamid Talal, 43, whose husband went missing as their area was liberated from Islamic State in 2016, sits at her house in Saqlawiya, Iraq, February 2, 2023. REUTERS/Saba Kareem 

Iraqi former footballer Ahmed Nasser, who lost his leg during a bomb attack in Baghdad in 2007, plays basketball with Iraq's Paralympic team in a training session in Baghdad, Iraq February 1, 2023. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Iraqi former footballer Ahmed Nasser, who lost his leg during a bomb attack in Baghdad in 2007, plays basketball with Iraq's Paralympic team in a training session in Baghdad, Iraq February 1, 2023. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani 

Iraqi former footballer Ahmed Nasser, who lost his leg during a bomb attack in Baghdad in 2007, plays basketball with Iraq's Paralympic team in a training session in Baghdad, Iraq February 1, 2023. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani 

Iraqi former footballer Ahmed Nasser, who lost his leg during a bomb attack in Baghdad in 2007, poses for the camera after a training session in Baghdad, Iraq February 1, 2023. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani 

Iraqi former footballer Ahmed Nasser, who lost his leg during a bomb attack in Baghdad in 2007, plays basketball with Iraq's Paralympic team in a training session in Baghdad, Iraq February 1, 2023. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani 

Iraqi former footballer Ahmed Nasser, who lost his leg during a bomb attack in Baghdad in 2007, plays basketball with Iraq's Paralympic team in a training session in Baghdad, Iraq February 1, 2023. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani 

A team works to identify remains exhumed from a mass grave in the mass grave section of the medico-legal directorate of Iraq's ministry of health, in Baghdad,Iraq, January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad 

A team works to identify remains exhumed from a mass grave in the mass grave section of the medico-legal directorate of Iraq's ministry of health, in Baghdad,Iraq, January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad 

A team works to identify remains exhumed from a mass grave in the mass grave section of the medico-legal directorate of Iraq's ministry of health, in Baghdad,Iraq, January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad 

A team works to identify remains exhumed from a mass grave in the mass grave section of the medico-legal directorate of Iraq's ministry of health, in Baghdad,Iraq, January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad 

Iraqi engineer Hazem Mohammed, who was hit by two bullets but survived the mass killing in which his brother perished, walks on the site of an unearthed mass grave from which people where exhumed that are believed to have been executed under Saddam Hussein's regime after an uprising in 1991, on the outskirts of the city of Najaf, Iraq January 24, 2023. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani 

Iraqi engineer Hazem Mohammed, who was hit by two bullets but survived the mass killing in which his brother perished, walks on the site of an unearthed mass grave from which people where exhumed that are believed to have been executed under Saddam Hussein's regime after an uprising in 1991, on the outskirts of the city of Najaf, Iraq January 24, 2023. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani 

A view of sandals found on the site of an unearthed mass grave from which people where exhumed that are believed to have been executed under Saddam Hussein's regime after an uprising in 1991, on the outskirts of the city of Najaf, Iraq January 24, 2023. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani 

An aerial view shows Iraqi engineer Hazem Mohammed, who was hit by two bullets but survived the mass killing in which his brother perished, walks on the site of an unearthed mass grave from which people where exhumed that are believed to have been executed under Saddam Hussein's regime after an uprising in 1991, on the outskirts of the city of Najaf, Iraq January 24, 2023. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani 

An official at Iraq's Martyrs Foundation checks documents from the Baath regime, some containing the names of Iraqis tried and executed under former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, at the archive department of the Martyrs Foundation, in Baghdad, Iraq, January 18, 2023. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad 

Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Chaika, who lost his leg serving in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who lost her legs in 2004 serving as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot in the Iraq war, share a lighthearted chat about their prothetics at the Medical Center Orthotics and Prosthetics (MCOP) clinic where Chaika received a prosthetic leg as part of MCOP’s Operation Renew to serve Ukrainian military personnel, at their clinic in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. October 11, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst 

Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Chaika, who lost his leg serving in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who lost her legs in 2004 serving as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot in the Iraq war, share a lighthearted chat about their prothetics at the Medical Center Orthotics and Prosthetics (MCOP) clinic where Chaika received a prosthetic leg as part of MCOP’s Operation Renew to serve Ukrainian military personnel, at their clinic in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. October 11, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst 

Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Chaika, who lost his leg serving in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who lost her legs in 2004 serving as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot in the Iraq war, share a lighthearted chat about their prothetics at the Medical Center Orthotics and Prosthetics (MCOP) clinic where Chaika received a prosthetic leg as part of MCOP’s Operation Renew to serve Ukrainian military personnel, at their clinic in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. October 11, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst 

Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Chaika, who lost his leg serving in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who lost her legs in 2004 serving as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot in the Iraq war, chat about their prothetics on the parallel bars at the Medical Center Orthotics and Prosthetics (MCOP) clinic where Chaika received a prosthetic leg as part of MCOP’s Operation Renew to serve Ukrainian military personnel, at their clinic in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. October 11, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst 

Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Chaika, who lost his leg serving in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who lost her legs in 2004 serving as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot in the Iraq war, share a lighthearted chat about their prothetics at the Medical Center Orthotics and Prosthetics (MCOP) clinic where Chaika received a prosthetic leg as part of MCOP’s Operation Renew to serve Ukrainian military personnel, at their clinic in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. October 11, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Chaika, who lost his leg serving in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, and his wife Anna meet U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who lost her legs in 2004 serving as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot in the Iraq war, and Senator U.S.Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) at the Medical Center Orthotics and Prosthetics (MCOP) clinic where he received a prosthetic leg as part of MCOP’s Operation Renew to serve Ukrainian military personnel, at their clinic in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. October 11, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst 

Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Chaika, who lost his leg serving in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who lost her legs in 2004 serving as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot in the Iraq war, share a lighthearted chat about their prothetics at the Medical Center Orthotics and Prosthetics (MCOP) clinic where Chaika received a prosthetic leg as part of MCOP’s Operation Renew to serve Ukrainian military personnel, at their clinic in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. October 11, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst 

Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Chaika, who lost his leg serving in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who lost her legs in 2004 serving as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot in the Iraq war, share a lighthearted chat about their prothetics at the Medical Center Orthotics and Prosthetics (MCOP) clinic where Chaika received a prosthetic leg as part of MCOP’s Operation Renew to serve Ukrainian military personnel, at their clinic in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. October 11, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst 

FILE PHOTO: A Shi'ite volunteer from brigades loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, keeps guard as he mans a machine gun in front of a picture of Iraqi Shi'ite radical leader Muqtada al-Sadr (L) and the Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, in Samarra, July 13, 2014. To match Special Report IRAQ-IRAN/SHIITES REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani/File Photo 

Smoke billows during controlled explosions to destroy unexploded war remnants collected from Najaf desert found by Iraqi civil defence team in Najaf, Iraq , July 23, 2022. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani 

A man pushes a wheelchair carrying a woman wounded by a Turkish attack, next to a hospital in Zakho, Iraq, July 20, 2022. REUTERS/Ari Jalal 

Security forces gather outside a hospital after a Turkish attack, in Zakho, Iraq, July 20, 2022. REUTERS/Ari Jalal 

An Iraqi member of a demining squad wearing safety equipment takes part in an operation to clear mines planted by Islamic State militants, in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq July 4, 2022. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily 

Iraqi members of a demining squad wearing safety equipment take part in an operation to clear mines planted by Islamic State militants, in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq July 4, 2022. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily 

Iraqi members of a demining squad wearing safety equipment take part in an operation to clear mines planted by Islamic State militants, in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq July 4, 2022. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily 

An Iraqi member of a demining squad wearing safety equipment takes part in an operation to clear mines planted by Islamic State militants, in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq July 4, 2022. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily 

An Iraqi member of a demining squad wearing safety equipment gives directions to a team, during an operation to clear mines planted by Islamic State militants, in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq July 4, 2022. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily 

An Iraqi member of a demining squad wearing safety equipment writes the word "safe" on a wall, during an operation to clear mines planted by Islamic State militants, in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq July 4, 2022. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily 

An Iraqi member of a demining squad wearing safety equipment takes part in an operation to clear mines planted by Islamic State militants, in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq July 4, 2022. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

An Iraqi member of a demining squad wearing safety equipment, takes part in an operation to clear mines planted by Islamic State militants, in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq July 4, 2022. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily 

An Iraqi member of a demining squad wearing safety equipment, takes part in an operation to clear mines planted by Islamic State militants, in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq July 4, 2022. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily 

An Iraqi member of a demining squad wearing safety equipment walks down a street during an operation to clear mines planted by Islamic State militants, in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq July 4, 2022. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily 

Emad Ballack, an Iraqi-American Kurd and businessman, who owns a restaurant in Kyiv, prepares his bag as he plans to return to Ukraine to support Ukrainian soldiers against the Russian invasion, at his home in Erbil, Iraq March 4, 2022. Picture taken March 4, 2022. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari 

Emad Ballack, an Iraqi-American Kurd and businessman, who owns a restaurant in Kyiv, watches a television broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as he plans to return to Ukraine to support Ukrainian soldiers against the Russian invasion, at his home in Erbil, Iraq March 4, 2022. Picture taken March 4, 2022. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari 

Emad Ballack, an Iraqi-American Kurd and businessman, who owns a restaurant in Kyiv, walks to the airport, as he plans to return to Ukraine to support Ukrainian soldiers against the Russian invasion, in Erbil, Iraq March 4, 2022. Picture taken March 4, 2022. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari 

Emad Ballack, an Iraqi-American Kurd and businessman, who owns a restaurant in Kyiv, provides his passport at the airport check, as he plans to return to Ukraine to support Ukrainian soldiers against the Russian invasion, in Erbil, Iraq March 4, 2022. Picture taken March 4, 2022. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari 

Ophthalmologist Sasha Khantil, whose father is a member of the Ukrainian army, holds her son at home in Erbil, Iraq, March 3, 2022. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari 

Ophthalmologist Sasha Khantil, whose father is a member of the Ukrainian army, holds her son at home in Erbil, Iraq, March 3, 2022. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari 

Ophthalmologist Sasha Khantil, whose father is a member of the Ukrainian army, watches television at home in Erbil, Iraq, March 3, 2022. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari 

Ophthalmologist Sasha Khantil, whose father is a member of the Ukrainian army, feeds her son at home in Erbil, Iraq, March 3, 2022. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari