Joint Operation of Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service and Sulaimani security forces in Kirkuk province, June 29, 2025. (Photo: Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service)
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)
A man reacts during the funeral of members of the Kurdish Asayish security forces, killed a day earlier in a Turkish drone strike in Amuda, in the northeastern Syrian Hasakah , Oct. 7, 2023. (Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP)
People walk at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp which holds suspected relatives of Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in Hasakeh governorate of northeastern Syria, March 3, 2021. (Photo: Delil Souleiman / AFP)
Special units from the Syrian Kurdish Asayish, part of the SDF, arrested 3 ISIS suspects in Deir al-Zor, Syria on April 29, 2021. (Photo: SDF Coordination and Military Operations Center/Twitter)
