A member of the Manbij Military Council (MMC) provides security outside local businesses during Eid al-Adha in Manbij, Syria, Aug. 21, 2018. (Photo: Sgt. Nicole Paese/US Army)
The Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani in meeting with Brigadier Richard Bell, the Deputy Commanding General of the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve against ISIS, Nov. 9, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani in meeting with Marshal Sammy Sampson, Britain's top military adviser for Middle East and North Africa, Nov. 8, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
This handout image provided by the Iranian Army Office on November 7, 2021, shows Iranian soldiers participating in a military exercise on the shore of the Sea of Oman in the coastal region of Baluchistan. (Photo: Iranian Army office / AFP)
A mask-clad youth walks in front of a large poster of Iraq's populist Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr, in Sadr City, east of the capital Baghdad, July 15, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
Peshmerga Sector 6 Commander Sirwan Barzani shakes hands with an Iraqi commander during a joint anti-ISIS operation near Makhmour. (Photo: Sirwan Barzani/Twitter).