This September 2020 photo shows the coastal patrol ship USS Firebolt, deployed to Manama, Bahrain in the US 5th Fleet area of operations. (Photo: Spc. Terrell Sherman/US Army)
Unidentified men thought to be with ISIS raided Qayee village in the Khanaqin district of Diyala province on April 25, 2021, killing the village chief and wounding two others. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
A US Navy photo shows an encounter between Iran’s IRGC Navy boat Harth 55, left, and the US Coast Guard patrol boat USCGC Monomoy in the Persian Gulf on April 2, 2021. (Photo: US Navy)
Peshmerga Minister Shorish Ismael (center) visited forces in the Kurdistan Region’s Garmiyan area on April 25, 2021. (Photo: KRG Ministry of Peshmerga)
Kurdish Asayish fighters, part of the US-backed SDF, take control of parts of Tay neighborhood from the pro-Syrian regime NDF militia in the city of Qamishlo, April 21, 2021. (Photo: Hogir Abdo)
A fighter with forces loyal to Yemen's Saudi-backed government holds a position against Houthi rebels in Yemen's northeastern province of Marib, April 16, 2021. (Photo: AFP)
Mask-clad, armed robbers are pictured by surveillance cameras as they leave a house after holding its owner and two others at gunpoint in a robbery, April 17, 2021. (Photo: Surveillance footage)
