American soldiers patrol near prison that was attacked by the Islamic Stete militants in Hassakeh, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. (Photo: Baderkhan Ahmad/ AP)
Retired US army Col. Myles B. Caggins III, a former spokesman for the US-led Coalition in Iraq, and senior fellow at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
People mourn over the bodies of a Kurdish family killed by Turkish-backed fighters amid Nowruz celebrations in Jindayris in the rebel-held province of Aleppo. (Photo: Omar Haj Kadour/ AFP)
A naval officer checks the Turkish flag over a ship during an annual NATO naval exercise on Turkey's western coast on the Mediterranean, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. (Photo: Khalil Hamra/ AP)
A vehicle drives past the iconic Freedom Monument, a 50-metre (165-foot) long bas relief that honors the 1950 revolution which overthrew Iraq's monarchy, in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on March 9, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/ AFP)
A photo shows captagon pills, hidden in apple crates, after they were seized by the Iraqis at the al-Qaim border crossing between Syria and Iraq, March 11, 2023. (Photo: Iraq Border Authority/AFP)
