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)