A Syrian woman and her child sit by their belongings awaiting departure as another group of families is released from the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp outside the northern Syrian city of Hasakah, March 18, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Delil Souleiman)
The US air base at Ramstein in Germany. Five men went on trial in Duesseldorf in May 2021, charged with planning an attack on US bases in Germany for ISIS. (Photo: US Army Corps of Engineers Europe District/CC-BY 2.0)
Iraqi forces search an area in Tarmiyah, 35 km (20 miles) north of Baghdad, following clashes with ISIS fighters, Feb. 20, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
A previous agreement between Baghdad and Erbil to coordinate their military forces in Iraq's disputed territories was never implemented. (Photo: Archive)
A previous agreement that aimed at achieving similar objectives, including the formation of joint operations centers, did not go into effect. (Photo: Archive)
Iraqi protesters burn tyres in front of the Karbala governorate headquarters in the central city of Karbala, following the assassination Ihab al-Wazni, May 9, 2021. (Photo: Mohammed Sawaf / AFP)