A bedouin boy holds the lambs of Abu Mari, a livestock farmer who raises camels, goats, and sheep, in the village of Ghezlaniah, in the countryside of the capital Damascus, April 20, 2021. (Photo: Louai Beshara / AFP)
Iraqi forces search an area in Tarmiyah, 35 km north of Baghdad, following clashes with ISIS fighters, February 20, 2021 (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye / AFP)
Iraqi forces search the area in Tarmiyah, 35 km (20 miles) north of Baghdad, following clashes with ISIS fighters, February 20, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
People walk at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp which holds suspected relatives of ISIS fighters, in Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria, March 3, 2021. (Photo: Delil Souleiman / AFP)
Members of the Iraqi Counter-terrorism Service (ICTS) are deployed in the streets of the capital Baghdad, March 27, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye / AFP)
Special units from the Syrian Kurdish Asayish, part of the SDF, arrested 3 ISIS suspects in Deir al-Zor, Syria on April 29, 2021. (Photo: SDF Coordination and Military Operations Center/Twitter)
A bloodstained wall at the National Security Directorate in Kirkuk after a would-be suicide bomber was killed by security forces, April 29, 2021. (Photo: Soran Kamaran / Kurdistan 24)
Mourners gather during a mass funeral for Yezidi (Ezidi) victims of ISIS in the disputed Iraqi district of Sinjar (Shingal), Feb. 6, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Zaid al-Obeidi)