A officer of German Federal Police stops a van to search for immigrants at the border crossing from Poland into Germany in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, Oct. 28, 2021. (Photo: Markus Schreiber/ AP)
A fighter 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 Ezzor province, Sept 4, 2023 (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP)
Major General Joel Vowell (left), the Commander of Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) meeting with Iraqi leadership in Baghdad. (Photo: Iraqi Premier's Media Office)
U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters sit on their armored vehicles, at al-Sabha town in the eastern countryside of Deir el-Zour, Syria, Sept. 4, 2023. (Photo: Baderkhan Ahmad/ AP)
A photograph shows a trench at an Azerbaijan forces' base in Shusha, in Azerbaijan's controlled region of Nagorno-Karabakh, on September 23, 2023. (Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/ AFP)
