From Shiite pilgrims honoring the anniversary of a holy imam to Mark Zuckerberg testifying in front of Congress, The Daily Beast brings you the best photos of the week.

Eventually the stench of death was too much even for ISIS. They covered it, mined it. The Iraqi government won’t touch it. The families of the disappeared have no place to turn.

The president is creating a lot of confusion about the U.S. in Syria, maybe to squeeze cash out of the Saudis. But he’s complicating the already complex policy he signed off on.

The Pentagon is pressuring Iraq to seize any M-1s that are still in the hands of Iran-backed militias but is vague about how many have been recovered––or not.

Matthew Bogdanos of the Manhattan district attorney’s office is a world-renowned expert in antiquities looting who’s hunted down artifacts from Iraq to the Upper East Side.

Ten years ago, Joey asked his father to come home from Iraq. Today, he’s getting ready to ship out, potentially to the very same country.

Now that the so-called Islamic State has lost virtually all the territory it once occupied in Syria and Iraq, it's Iran's proxies, not America's, that are moving in.