Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with outgoing Commander General of the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve Mathew McFarlane, Aug. 13, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
Special units from the Syrian Kurdish Asayish, part of the SDF, arrested 3 ISIS suspects in Deir al-Zor, Syria on April 29, 2021. (Photo: SDF Coordination and Military Operations Center/Twitter)
Military vehicles belonging to the Kurdistan Region's Peshmerga forces are pictured during an anti-ISIS joint operation with Iraqi army in Nineveh, May 3, 2023. (Photo: Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs)
Migrants stand behind a fence inside a refugee camp in Kokkinotrimithia outside of capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Feb. 5, 2021. (Photo: Petros Karadjias/ AP)