The announcement came moments after Syria's Kurdish militia, left exposed by a US pledge to pull out its own troops, asked for the regime's help to face a threatened Turkish offensive. (Photo: AFP)
US soldiers patrol an area on the outskirts of Rumaylan in Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakeh province on December 11, 2023 (Photo: AFP/Delil Souleman)
Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stands guard along a road as others deploy to impose a curfew in the town of al-Busayrah in Syria's northeastern Deir ez-Zor province on September 4, 2023 (Photo: Delil Souleman/AFP)
US soldiers are conducting patrols in the vicinity of Rumaylan in Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakeh province on December 11, 2023 (Photo: Delil Souleman/AFP.
Thick smoke billows from a raging fire at a storage tank of the al-Awda oil field facility near al-Qahtaniyah in northeastern Syria close to the Turkish border, Dec. 24, 2023. (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP)
A U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter stands next an armored vehicle, at al-Sabha town in the eastern countryside of Deir el-Zour, Syria, Sept. 4, 2023. (Photo: Baderkhan Ahmad/ AP)
Soldiers of a Russian military convoy and their US counterparts exchange greetings as their patrol routes intersect in an oil field near Syria's al-Qahtaniyah on October 8, 2022 (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP)
