Syria

In this photo taken on Wednesday, March 28, 2018, a member of the Kurdish internal security forces holds his waepon during a patrol in Manbij, north Syria. Manbij, a mixed Arab and Kurdish town of nearly 400,000, was liberated from Islamic State militants in 2016 by the YPG fighters with backing from U.S-led coalition airstrikes. With Turkey's threats, the town has become the axle for U.S. policy in Syria, threatening its prestige and military deployment in eastern Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)