A U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter stands next an armored vehicle, at al-Sabha town in the eastern countryside of Deir el-Zour, Syria, Sept. 4, 2023. (Photo: Baderkhan Ahmad/ AP)
Soldiers of a Russian military convoy and their US counterparts exchange greetings as their patrol routes intersect in an oil field near Syria's al-Qahtaniyah on October 8, 2022 (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP)
Members of the group Kataeb Hezbollah drapes the body of their fallen comrade Hassan Hammadi al-Amiri with the PMF flag during his funeral in Baghdad, Dec. 26, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
