Michel Kilo, a Syrian opposition leader and writer, speaks to the media in Moscow, Russia in July 2012. Kilo died in Paris on April 19, 2021, of complications from COVID-19. (Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (2nd left) flanked by Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi (left) as he greets the Iraqi delegation in Riyadh on March 31, 2021. (Photo: AFP / Saudi Royal Palace / Bandar Al-Jaloud)
A member of Syrian Kurdish security forces looks on during the handover of orphaned children, whose parents were suspected of belonging to ISIS, to a Russian delegation in Qamishli on April 18, 2021. (Photo: Delil Souleiman / AFP)
Abbas Araghchi, political deputy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, arrives at the ‘Grand Hotel Wien’ for the closed-door nuclear talks with the EU, China and Russia in Vienna on April 16, 2021. (Photo: Joe Klamar / AFP)
Smoke rises after explosives-laden drone attack on international base of coalition forces, April 15, 2021 (Photo: Wladimir van Wilgenburg/Kurdistan 24)
Security officials from the Kurdistan Region's Peshmerga ministry with their Iraqi counterparts at the Joint Operation Command in Baghdad in 2020. (Photo: Iraqi government)
Syrians civilians are treated for breathing difficulties at a field hospital outside the town of Saraqeb after a reported chemical attack. Feb. 3, 2018. (Photo: AFP/Omar Haj Kadour
