Cars wait at a checkpoint at the Syrian-Iraqi border point of al-Tanf, 167 miles northeast of Damascus, Syria, Oct. 2, 2004 (Photo: LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images).
Turkish-backed Syrian rebel fighters hold a Turkish national flag and a Free Syrian Army flag at a checkpoint in Azaz on a road leading to Afrin (Photo: AFP)
A picture shows the al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State group fighters in the northeastern Hasakah governorate, on Dec. 6, 2021 (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP)
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels looting shops after seizing control in 2018 of Afrin, the Kurdish enclave in northwest Syria. (Photo: Bulent Kilic / AFP).
