Turkish-backed Syrian rebels looting shops after seizing control in 2018 of Afrin, the Kurdish enclave in northwest Syria. (Photo: Bulent Kilic / AFP).
Would-be migrants to Europe who spent weeks stranded on the border of Belarus arrive at Erbil International Airport, Dec. 2, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
A Syrian woman carries a container of water provided by the UNICEF in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakah, on July 8 2021, after disruption in water supply from the Allouk station. (Photo: AFP)
Iraqi migrants who were flown home from the Belarusian capital Minsk, display wounds on their hands from extreme cold sustained while trying to cross into the European Union from Belarus, Nov. 26, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
Mourners gather around as a coffin is buried during a mass funeral for Yezidi victims of ISIS in the northern Iraqi village of Kocho in Sinjar district, on February 6, 2021. (Photo: Zaid al-Obeidi / AFP)