A Syrian girl holds an oxygen mask over the face of an infant at a make-shift hospital following a reported gas attack on the town of Douma in the eastern Ghouta region on January 22, 2018. (Photo: Voice of America)
A Manbij Military Council member provides security outside local businesses during Eid al-Adha in Manbij, Syria, August 21, 2018. (Photo: Sgt. Nicole Paese/US Army)
In this image taken from video, dozens of medical workers protest a decision to grant Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government a seat on the World Health Organization executive board, May 31, 2021, in Idlib, Syria. (Photo: AP)
Syrians wave national flags and carry a large portrait of their president as they celebrate in the streets of the capital Damascus, May 27, 2021. (Photo: Louai Beshara/AFP)
A US armored military vehicle patrols oil fields in the town of Qahtaniyah in northeastern Syria’s Hasakah province, May 8, 2020. (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP)
Residents of the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishlo in northeast Syria cast their votes in the Syrian presidential elections, May 26, 2021. (Photo: Akram Salih/Kurdistan 24)
A Syrian voter shows a ballot with the pictures of the three candidates in Syria’s presidential election, including President Bashar al-Assad (right), before casting her vote in Damascus on May 26, 2021. (Photo: Louai Beshara/AFP)
In this May 12, 2014 file photo, campaign posters for the upcoming presidential election adorn a street in Damascus, Syria. The banner reads, “Together with Bashar Assad.” (Photo: AP/File)
A man rides a bicycle past election campaign billboards depicting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a candidate for the upcoming presidential vote, in Damascus on May 23, 2021. (Photo: Louai Beshara/AFP)
NGO Fight for Humanity printed flyers and posters in Arabic and Kurdish explaining the 2019 SDF-UN action plan to prevent child recruitment. (Photo: Fight for Humanity)
A Syrian woman and her child sit by their belongings awaiting departure as another group of families is released from the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp outside the northern Syrian city of Hasakah, March 18, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Delil Souleiman)
A Syrian woman who lives in Lebanon, casts her ballot for her country’s presidential election at the Syrian embassy in Yarze, east of Beirut, Lebanon, May 20, 2021. (Photo: Hussein Malla/AP)
