US soldiers set up missile launchers near Javelin systems and a Bradley Fighting Vehicle during a joint SDF-US coalition exercise in Deir Ezzor, Western Kurdistan, on Dec. 7, 2021. (Photo: AFP)
A picture shows the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State (IS) group fighters in the northeastern Hasakeh governorate, on Aug. 26, 2022. (Photo: AFP)
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)
This picture shows the aftermath of a Turkish strike on the Babasi oil facility in the countryside of al-Qahtaniya in Syria's Kurdish-controlled northeastern Hasakeh province on Oct. 6, 2023 (Photo: Delil souleiman/AFP)