US soldiers patrol an area on the outskirts of Rumaylan in Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakeh province on December 11, 2023 (Photo: AFP/Delil Souleman)
Members of Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi stand guard at the entrance of their headquarters in Baghdad following a reported strike, Jan. 4, 2024. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stands guard along a road as others deploy to impose a curfew in the town of al-Busayrah in Syria's northeastern Deir ez-Zor province on September 4, 2023 (Photo: Delil Souleman/AFP)
Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, Washington, D.C., Sept. 6, 2022. (Photo: DOD/U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Alexander Kubitza)
People injured in two explosions in quick succession that struck a crowd marking the anniversary of the 2020 killing of Guards general Qasem Soleimani (Photo: SARE TAJALLI / ISNA / AFP)
The site where two explosions in quick succession struck a crowd marking the anniversary of the 2020 killing of Guards general Qasem Soleimani in Kerman on January 3, 2024 (Photo: Sare Tajalli/ISNA/AFP)
