Mihyeddin Gulo, one of the administrators of the PKK training academy, killed in an operation carried out by Turkish MIT on Aug. 9 in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishlo. (Photo: Anadolu Agency)
At least 19 people were killed and 30 or so injured after a truck driver hurtled into pedestrians in Mardin province (Photo: Demiroren News Agency/DHA/AFP/Getty Images).
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John Brennan, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) commander, greets ambassadors of joint partner nations during Ambassadors' Day in Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 6, 2021. (Photo: U.S. Central Command).
A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) holds up the group's flag at the iconic Al-Naim square in Raqqa, Syria, during the celebration of Raqqa's liberation, Oct. 17, 2017. (Photo: Bulent Kilic, AFP/Getty Images).
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)