People look at a destroyed van near the village of Barisha, in Idlib province, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, after an operation by the U.S. military which targeted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Photo: Ghaith Alsayed/ AP)
On Saturday, Nashville, Tennessee, home to America’s largest Kurdish community, unveiled a plaque marking five decades of Kurdish immigration to the city (Photo: Nawzad Hawrami)
Former US Secertary of Defense Ashton Carter (center) during a meeting with former President of the Kurdistan Region, Masoud Barzani, in Erbil, Oct. 23, 2016. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency)