Iraqi and Turkish soldiers stand next to tanks carrying Turkish and Iraqi flags during a joint military exercise near the Turkish-Iraqi border at Silopi district in Sirnak, September 26, 2017. (Photo: AFP)
People look at a destroyed van near the village of Barisha, in Idlib province, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, after an operation by the U.S. military which targeted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Photo: Ghaith Alsayed/ AP)
A US armored military vehicle patrols oil fields in the town of Qahtaniyah in northeastern Syria's Hasakah province, May 8, 2020. (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP)
Women walk in the al-Hol camp that houses some 60,000 refugees, including families and supporters of the Islamic State group, many of them foreign nationals, in Hasakeh province, Syria, May 1, 2021. (Photo: Baderkhan Ahmad/ AP)
Members of Iraq's Rapid Intervention forces driving in a village in the Hawi al-Azim area, in the eastern Diyala province, Jan. 24, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Refugees from Syria arrive on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos aboard an inflatable dinghy across the Aegean Sea from Turkey, Sept. 7, 2015. (Photo: Angelos Tzortinis/AFP)