Yazidi women queue in order to get food at the Bajid Kandala camp near the Tigris River, in western Dohuk province, where they took refuge after fleeing advances by Islamic State jihadists in Iraq on Aug. 13, 2014. (Photo: AFP)
U.S. Central Command commander General Michael Eric Kurilla visited Syria and Iraq after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. (Photo: U.S. Department of Defense)
Head of Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's (HTS) 'Salvation Government' in their northwest Syria bastion Mohammed Bashir, holds a press conference in the rebel-held northwestern Syrian city of Idlib, Nov. 28, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (left) during his meeting with Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani, Dec. 10, 2024. (Photo: KRG)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (left) during meeting with Bahrain's National Security Advisor and Commander of the Royal Guard, Nasser bin Hamad al-Khalifa, Dec. 10, 2024. (Photo: KRG)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (left) during his meeting with Bahrain’s Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, Dec. 10, 2024. (Photo: KRG)
A man walks past a portrait of late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad displayed at the main entrance of a building in the capital Damascus on Dec. 9. (Photo: AFP)
This photograph taken in Moscow on December 9, 2024, shows front pages of some of Russia's national newspapers, dominated by stories about the fall of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. (Photo: AFP)
Oct. 14, 2019 photo, Turkey-backed Syrian opposition fighters fire a heavy machine-gun towards Kurdish fighters, in Syria's northern region of Manbij. (Photo: AP)
Japanese director Kenji Kamiyama poses on the red carpet upon arrival for the World premiere of the animated film "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim". (Photo: AFP)
