A previous visit of US Deputy Envoy to Syria David Brownstein (center left) to the Foreign Relations Department of the local administration in the northern Syrian city of Qamishlo, April 14, 2021. (Photo: AANES)
A screenshot of video released of the SDF's overhaul of security and health procudurers at a prison housing ISIS detainees in Syria's northern Hasakah province. (Photo: SDF Press)
A bedouin boy holds the lambs of Abu Mari, a livestock farmer who raises camels, goats, and sheep, in the village of Ghezlaniah, in the countryside of the capital Damascus, April 20, 2021. (Photo: Louai Beshara / AFP)
Syrians being treated for breathing difficulties in the town of Saraqeb are shown at a field hospital in a village on the outskirts of Saraqeb after a reported chemical attack. Feb. 3, 2018. (Photo: AFP/Omar Haj Kadour
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)
People walk at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp which holds suspected relatives of Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in Hasakeh governorate of northeastern Syria, March 3, 2021. (Photo: Delil Souleiman / AFP)
Officials from Uzbekistan and the AANES in northeast Syria signed a document confirming the repatriation of women and children with ties to ISIS on April 30, 2021. (Photo: Abdulkarim Omar/Twitter)
Medical workers oversee the disinfection of streets in order to halt the spread of the coronavirus in the northern Syrian city of Qamishli. (Photo: AP/Baderkhan Ahmad)