Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gestures during an interview with AFP in the capital Damascus on February 11, 2016 (Photo: AFP/JOSEPH EID/Getty Images)
Portraits of people forcibly disappeared in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen are displayed during an event organized by Amnesty International and attended by their family members in Beirut, Aug. 30, 2023. (Photo: Anwar Amro/ AFP)
French President Emmanuel Macron attends a National hommage to Jean-Louis Georgelin, a former French army chief, Aug. 25, 2023. (Photo: Bertrand Guady/AFP)
Tents erected in front of the current Kirkuk JointOperations Command building that used to serve as KDP Kirkuk Headquarters, August 29, 2023. (Photo: Hemin Dalo/Kurdistan 24)