A fighter 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 Ezzor province, Sept 4, 2023 (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP)
U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters sit on their armored vehicles, at al-Sabha town in the eastern countryside of Deir el-Zour, Syria, Sept. 4, 2023. (Photo: Baderkhan Ahmad/ AP)
Migrants stand behind a fence inside a refugee camp in Kokkinotrimithia outside of capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Feb. 5, 2021. (Photo: Petros Karadjias/ AP)
Migrants from Syria walk towards a refugee camp at Kokkinotrimithia, outside of the capital Nicosia, in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. (Photo: Petros Karadjias/ AP)
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Special Representative of the President of Russia for the Middle East, Mikhail Bogdanov, speaking to Kurdistan 24, Sept 20, 2023. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
An excavator clears debris in Libya's eastern city of Derna on September 18, 2023, following deadly flash floods, Sept. 18, 2023. (Photo: Mahmud Turkia/AFP)
Women residents from former Islamic State-held areas in Syria, line up for aid supplies at Al-Hol camp in Hassakeh province, Syria, on March 31, 2019 (Photo: AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)