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)
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)