Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (left) shaking hands with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, Feb. 17, 2024. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)
Syrian soldiers carry a casket during the funeral of the victims of a drone attack targeting a Syrian military academy, outside a hospital in government-controlled Homs, Oct. 6, 2023. (Photo: Louai Beshara/AFP)
An aerial view taken from a rescue helicopter, of migrants onboard a fishing vessel in the waters off the Peloponnese coast of Greece on June 13, 2023. (Photo: The Hellenic Coastguard/ AFP)
A US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter stands next to an armored vehicle, at al-Sabha town in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, Syria, Sept. 4, 2023. (Photo: Baderkhan Ahmad/ AP)
Kurdistan Region Minister of Peshmerga Affairs Shorish Ismael (right), during his meeting with Turkish Minister of National Defense Yaşar Güler, Feb. 6, 2024. (Photo: KRG Department of Foreign Relations)
General Issa Ozer, the Peshmerga Ministry’s Chief of Staff (right), during his meeting with Colonel Mike Gachero, senior military advisor at the U.S. Consulate in Erbil, Feb. 5, 2024. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Released Syrian detainees prepare to leave the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected ISIS fighters in Syria's northeastern Hasakah governorate on September 3, 2023 (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP).
