Members of Iraq's Rapid Intervention forces driving in a village in the Hawi al-Azim area, in the eastern Diyala province on Jan. 24, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Cars wait at a checkpoint at the Syrian-Iraqi border point of al-Tanf, 167 miles northeast of Damascus, Syria, Oct. 2, 2004 (Photo: LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images).
Members of the Peshmerga forces during a ceremony in which US forces donated military vehicles to the Kurdish forces in capital Erbil, Nov. 10, 2020. (Photo: Safin Hamed / AFP)
A seized cache of captagon tablets hidden in tea boxes to be smuggled, presented at a press conference at the headquarters of the Internal Security Forces in Lebanon's capital Beirut. (Photo: Anwar Amro/AFP)
A picture shows the al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State group fighters in the northeastern Hasakah governorate, on Dec. 6, 2021 (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP)
Masoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) on Wednesday met with Peshmerga Minister Shorish Ismail (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)