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)
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)
