A US armored military vehicle patrols oil fields in the town of Qahtaniyah in northeastern Syria’s Hasakah province, May 8, 2020. (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP)
UN Secretary-General for Iraq and Head of UNAMI, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, at the open video-teleconference of the UN Security Council, February 16, 2021 (Photo: UN)
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (C) and his wife Asma (R) cast their votes at a polling station in Douma, near Damascus, May 26, 2021. (Photo: Louai Beshara / AFP)
A member of Iraq's Interior Ministry's anti-"fake news" team speaks to a pharmacist in the capital Baghdad, as part of a campaign to spread awareness among the population on fake news, May 20, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP)
The shadow of a member of Iraq's security forces is cast on the flag of ISIS in 2017 at a town once controlled by the extremist organization. (Photo: AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
Ahmed Al Mansuri, founder of Crossroads of Civilization private museum, left, greets a rabbi at an exhibition commemorating the Jewish Holocaust in Dubai, UAE, May 26, 2021. (Photo: Kamran Jebreili/AP)
KDP leader Masoud Barzani (right) met Ole Diehl, the outgoing German Ambassador to Iraq, in the Kurdistan Region’s Erbil, May 26, 2021. (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)
Iraqis demonstrate in the southern city of Basra to demand accountability for a recent wave of killings targeting activists, May 25, 2021. (Photo: Hussien Faleh / AFP)
Residents of the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishlo in northeast Syria cast their votes in the Syrian presidential elections, May 26, 2021. (Photo: Akram Salih/Kurdistan 24)
