People walk at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp which holds suspected relatives of Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in Hasakeh governorate of northeastern Syria, March 3, 2021. (Photo: Delil Souleiman / AFP)
A plume of smoke rises from a building following a reported Russian air strike on Syria's northwestern rebel-held Idlib province, on June 25, 2023. (Photo: Abdulaziz ketaz/ AFP)
ISIS has previously carried out mass killings following military assaults in Iraq and Syria, including the slaughter of hundreds of members of the al-Sheitat tribe in Deir ez-Zor in 2014. (Photo: AFP)