In this file photo taken on Sept. 22, 2020, a rocket launches from an S-400 missile system at the Ashuluk military base in Southern Russia. (Photo: AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)
Masrour Barzani (Right), Prime Minister of Kurdistan Regional Government, and Joel Rayburn, US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Levant Affairs and Special Envoy for Syria. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
A health care worker checks the temperature of a woman arriving by bus to Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) from the Kurdistan Region to test for the coronavirus, Feb. 26, 2020 (Photo: AFP/Delil Souleiman)