Masrour Barzani, the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region (right), during his meeting with Major General Matthew W. McFarlane, the commanding general of the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, April 3, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, top center, reviews army troops marching during a parade marking National Army Day in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, April 17, 2016. (Photo: Ebrahim Noroozi/ AP)
A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) (L) and US soldiers are pictured near an armoured military vehicle in Syria (Photo: Delil souleiman/AFP)
Abbas Al-Zamili, the Chairman of the Security and Defense Committee of the Iraqi Parliament (right), during his meeting with Lieutenant General Giovanni M. Iannucci, March 29, 2023. (Photo: Iraqi Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee
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)
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 top delegation from the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs (right) during their meeting with the head of the coalition advisors and senior security support team at the US Consulate in Erbil, March 28, 2023. (Photo: The Ministry of Peshmerga)
In this Feb. 20, 2017 file photo, Canadian special forces soldiers, left and right, speak with Kurdish Peshmerga fighters at an observation post, in northern Iraq. (Photo: Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
American soldiers patrol near prison that was attacked by the Islamic Stete militants in Hassakeh, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. (Photo: Baderkhan Ahmad/ AP)