Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, speaks during a news conference in Hassakeh, Syria, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (Photo: AP / Baderkhan Ahmad)
State Department spokesman Ned Price speaks during a news conference at the State Department, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, Pool)
Women and a child queue to receive humanitarian aid packages at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State fighters, in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh governorate on Aug. 18, 2021 (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP
An aerial view shows trucks carrying aid packages from the World Food Program (WFP) driving through the rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib, Jan. 8, 2023. (Photo: Omar Haj Kadour/AFP)
Syrian refugees walk through a camp for displaced muddied by recent rains near the village of Kafr Aruq, in Idlib province, Syria. (Photo: AP/Ghaith Alsayed)
U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters pose for a photo in Baghouz, Syria, after the SDF declared the area free of Islamic State militants. (Photo: Maya Alleruzzo/ AP)
