open image in gallery TOPSHOT - A pedestrian struggles to breathe as he walks along the side of a road through low visibility conditions due to a massive dust storm in Iraq’s central city of ...

Iraq is listed by the UN as one of the five countries most vulnerable to climate change as it encounters regular sandstorms, sweltering heat and water scarcity. A severe sandstorm in 2022 left one ...

Baghdad (AFP) – A sandstorm swept through Iraq, filling the air with choking ... in central and southern cities as the storm cloaked the region in an eerie orange haze, AFP photographers reported.

"The number of suffocation cases recorded due to the dust storm yesterday and to date ... That number is projected to reach 300 by 2050. Iraq is among the nations most vulnerable to climate ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — A sandstorm swept through Iraq ... Visibility fell to less than one kilometer (barely half a mile) in central and southern cities as the storm cloaked the region in an eerie orange ...