US Army Gen. Joseph Votel, then-head of U.S. Central Command, testifies during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 27, 2018. (Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP)
Turkish Foreign Ministry Deputy Sedat Onal, seated second right, meets with Hamdi Sanad Loza, Egyptian deputy foreign minister at the foreign ministry in Cairo, Egypt, May 5, 2021. (Photo: Nariman El-Mofty/AP)
A fighter with forces loyal to Yemen’s Saudi-backed government holds a position against Houthi rebels in Yemen’s northeastern province of Marib, April 16, 2021. (Photo: AFP)
Masrour Barzani (Right), Kurdistan Region Prime Minister, during a meeting in Erbil with US State Department Adviser Derek Chollet, May 5. 2021. (Photo: KRG)
A man walks his dog past electoral posters for Israeli Prime Minister and candidate Benjamin Netanyahu in the Arab city of Kfar Qassem in central Israel, on March 22, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
Brett McGurk (left), US National Security Council Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Dana Stroul participate in a webinar. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right), receives Mohammed al-Halbousi, Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, May 3, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
In this May 12, 2014 file photo, campaign posters for the upcoming presidential election adorn a street in Damascus, Syria. The banner reads, “Together with Bashar Assad.” (Photo: AP/File)
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif looks on during his meeting with his Iraqi counterpart in Iraq's capital Baghdad, April 26, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye / AFP)
People walk at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp which holds suspected relatives of Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in Hasakeh governorate of northeastern Syria, March 3, 2021. (Photo: Delil Souleiman / AFP)
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