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Andre, an Iraqi Christian whose shop was firebombed a few weeks ago by two people on a motorcycle just before dawn, sits at the shop in the Bataween district in the centre of Iraq's capital Baghdad on December 5, 2020. - Over the past two months, at least 14 alcohol shops across Baghdad have been firebombed in the middle of the night or just before dawn, with three simultaneous attacks in different districts Monday night alone. Some suspect turf wars for control of the lucrative niche trade in the Muslim majority country. Most businesses are run by Christians or Yazidis, minorities who for decades have been granted licenses required to sell alcohol in broadly conservative Iraq. (Photo by Ayman HENNA / AFP)

Baghdad booze attacks: Turf war or vice squads?
Worshippers attend mass at the Chaldean Church of St. Joseph in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, on November 7, 2020. - A few hundred thousand Christians are left in Iraq, where a US-led invasion in 2003 paved the way for bloody sectarian warfare that devastated the country's historic and diverse Christian communities -- Assyrian, Armenian, Chaldean, Protestant and more -- that were directly targeted later, as local hardliners fought each other starting in 2006. (Photo by Sabah ARAR / AFP)

Iraqi Christians still dream of leaving
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Iraq and Saudi reopen border after 30 years
TOPSHOT - Iraqi demonstrators wave flags as they gather in Tahrir Square in the centre of the capital Baghdad on October 25, 2020, to mark the first anniversary of a massive anti-government movement demanding the ouster of the entire ruling class accused of corruption. - Thousands of Iraqis headed to the capital Baghdad's iconic Tahrir Square and the Green Zone, where authorities sit, to mark the first anniversary of an ongoing revolt against the country's stagnant political class. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Iraqis rally to revive year-old revolt
Employees display rifles for sale at a gun shop in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on September 22, 2020. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

New US threats to Iraq widen rifts, leave premier exposed
(FILES) A handout file picture received from the US embassy in Iraq on December 31, 2019, shows smoke billowing from a sentry box at an entrance of the embassy in the capital Baghdad, after supporters and members of the Hashed al-Shaabi military network breached last year the outer wall of the diplomatic mission during a rally to vent anger over weekend air strikes that killed pro-Iran fighters in western Iraq. - As Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi prepares for his first meeting with US President Donald Trump this week, attacks on American targets by pro-Iranian fighters have been on the rise. (Photo by - / US EMBASSY IN IRAQ / AFP)

As Iraq PM heads to US; pro-Iran groups step up attacks
BAGHDAD: In this file photo taken on Feb 4, 2020, Iraqi students hold hands and chant as they march in an anti-government demonstration in Tahrir Square. – AFP

Protests, virus rob Iraq students of grad dreams
Iraqi paramedics in full hazmat gear pray over the coffin of a fifty-year-old victim of the COVID-19 virus before her burrial at a cemetary specifically opened for such deaths, 20 kms from the central holy city of Najaf, on March 3, 2020. (Photo by Haidar HAMDANI / AFP)

Iraqis rally to help needy families as economy falters
This picture taken on March 27, 2020 shows a view of a purpose-built sealed hospital bed self-built by a resident of Iraq's southern city of Basra to isolate COVID-19 coronavirus disease patients, the scientific and medical efficacy of which has not yet been endorsed by Iraq's health ministry nor confirmed by AFP. - The sealed chamber bed reportedly includes air conditioning for ventilation, ultraviolet lamps for sterilisation, and a television set for entertainment. (Photo by Hussein FALEH / AFP)

No resting place for coronavirus dead in Iraq
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