In this Oct. 19, 2023, photo, the U.S. Navy destroyer Carney (DDG 64) defeats Houthi missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles in the Red Sea (Photo: U.S. NAVY / MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 2ND CLASS AARON LAU)
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Laboon approaches the oiler USNS Kanawha (background) for replenishment-at-sea operation in the Red Sea, Dec. 5, 2023. (Photo: Elexia Morelos/US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE/AFP)
The announcement came moments after Syria's Kurdish militia, left exposed by a US pledge to pull out its own troops, asked for the regime's help to face a threatened Turkish offensive. (Photo: AFP)
KDP President Masoud Barzani (right) during his meeting with General Maj. Gen. Joel B. Vowell, a commander of the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, Jan.9, 2024. (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with Coalition against ISIS commander Joel B. Vowell, Jan. 9, 2024. (Photo: KRG)
President Nechirvan Barzani visited the Consulate General of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Erbil to pay his condolences, Jan. 8, 2024 (Photo: Kurdistan 24).
