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)
In August 2014, thousands of Yezidis were trapped in the Shingal mountains as they tried to escape from the so-called Islamic State. (Photo: Anadolu Agency/Emrah Yorulmaz)
Bashar al-Assad arrived at his swearing-in ceremony in Damascus, Syria on July 17, 2021. Assad was reelected for a fourth term as president in a May election deemed neither
A Syrian man displays bread and traditional sweets for sale in Damascus' Midan neighborhood as people shop prior to breaking their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on June 21, 2016. (Photo: Louai Beshara / AFP)
Aid workers formed a human chain to advocate for keeping open a border crossing through which aid is delivered to northeast Syria. (Photo: Omar Haj Khadour/AFP)
