Omar Abdel-Fattah, 50-year-old retired farmer, walks past his plantation which was rented to another farmer in the village of Jaabar al-Saghir in the area surrounding Tabqa in Raqa province in northern Syria, July 11, 2023. (Photo: Delil So
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)
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)
Syrians walk through destruction in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, on Apr. 16, 2018. (Photo: AP/File)
US army soldiers stand at an observation point during the “African Lion” military exercise in the Tan-Tan region in southwestern Morocco, June 18, 2021. (Photo: Fadel Senna/AFP)