Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, gestures while speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. (Photo: Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool via AP)
A member of the Manbij Military Council (MMC) provides security outside local businesses during Eid al-Adha in Manbij, Syria, Aug. 21, 2018. (Photo: Sgt. Nicole Paese/US Army)
Women walk in the Roj detention camp in northeast Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. Syrian Kurdish authorities are struggling to supervise tens of thousands of ISIS-affiliated foreign nationals who they are holding in camps and prisons across
Turkish-backed Syrian fighters of the Sultan Murad brigade are pictured during a military show in the Afrin region in the rebel-held northern countryside of Syria's northern Aleppo province on Nov. 17, 2020 (Photo: Bakr Alkasem/AFP).
A US soldier stands by a Bradley Fighting Vehicle (BFV) during a patrol in the countryside near al-Malikiyah (Derik) in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province. Feb. 2, 2021. (Photo: Delil Souleiman / AFP)
