US Secretary of State Antony Blinken addresses a press briefing at the end of a NATO Foreign Ministers' meeting in Brussels, March 24, 2021. (Photo: AFP)
Midya Masti (left) stands at the parade square of Sandhurst along with two other female cadets graduating from the elite military academy, March 20, 2021. (Photo: British Army)
Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) watch as smoke plumes billow after shelling on the Islamic State (IS) group's last holdout of Baghouz, in the eastern Syrian Deir Ezzor province, March 13, 2019. (Photo: Delil Souleiman / AFP)
Heavy fighting between the SDF and Turkey-backed fighters continued near the Syrian city of Ain Issa on March 19-21, 2021. (Photo: Hussein Farman/Twitter)
An F-16 Fighting Falcon takes off from Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, in support of Operation Inherent Resolve Aug. 12, 2015. (Photo: U.S. AIR FORCE / SENIOR AIRMAN KRYSTAL ARDREY)
Five civilians were injured and a child killed during Turkish shelling near the northern Syrian city of Ain Issa on March 19, 2021. (Photo: Mustafa Bali/Twitter)
A Syrian woman and child sit by their belongings awaiting departure, as another group of Syrian families is released from the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp on March 18, 2021. (Photo: Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
A photo posted on social media purports to show family members grieving those killed by Islamic State militants south of the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Friday morning. (Photo: Social Media)
Jasb Hattab Aboud, father of the kidnapped protester Ali Jasb, cries as he holds his son's picture in his home in the town of Amara,Iraq. Aboud was shot to death Wednesday, March 10, 2021. (Photo: AP)