• Syrian children, who fled with their families from the village of Hawsh Nasri in Duma, queue to receive aid from an NGO in the village of Shaffuniya in Ghouta, east of the capital Damascus. Abd Doumany / AFP
    Syrian children, who fled with their families from the village of Hawsh Nasri in Duma, queue to receive aid from an NGO in the village of Shaffuniya in Ghouta, east of the capital Damascus. Abd Doumany / AFP
  • Soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces are lined up against a building during a training exercise to prepare for the operation to re-take Mosul from Islamic State militants, in Baghdad, Iraq. Maya Alleruzzo / AP Photo
    Soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces are lined up against a building during a training exercise to prepare for the operation to re-take Mosul from Islamic State militants, in Baghdad, Iraq. Maya Alleruzzo / AP Photo
  • An Afghan athlete prepares to compete in a provincial bodybuilding championship in Mazar-i-sharif. Farshad Usyan / AFP
    An Afghan athlete prepares to compete in a provincial bodybuilding championship in Mazar-i-sharif. Farshad Usyan / AFP
  • Palestinians put out a fire caused by a flare lunched by Israeli army soldiers as Israeli army troops plant explosives in the house of Palestinian Mohammad Taraira in the West Bank village of Bani Naem, near Hebron. Abed Al Hashlamoun / EPA
    Palestinians put out a fire caused by a flare lunched by Israeli army soldiers as Israeli army troops plant explosives in the house of Palestinian Mohammad Taraira in the West Bank village of Bani Naem, near Hebron. Abed Al Hashlamoun / EPA
  • A Syrian Syriac Christian girl attends a mass, marking the assumption of the Virgin Mary, at the Saint Mary's Syriac Orthodox Church in the northeastern city of Qamishli. Delil Souleiman / AFP
    A Syrian Syriac Christian girl attends a mass, marking the assumption of the Virgin Mary, at the Saint Mary's Syriac Orthodox Church in the northeastern city of Qamishli. Delil Souleiman / AFP
  • A soldier in the role of an Islamic State militant runs through green smoke during a training exercise to prepare for the operation to re-take Mosul from IS, in Baghdad, Iraq. Maya Alleruzzo / AP Photo
    A soldier in the role of an Islamic State militant runs through green smoke during a training exercise to prepare for the operation to re-take Mosul from IS, in Baghdad, Iraq. Maya Alleruzzo / AP Photo
  • A soldier listens to an address by his commander after a training exercise to prepare for the operation to re-take Mosul from Islamic State militants, in Baghdad, Iraq. Maya Alleruzzo / AP Photo
    A soldier listens to an address by his commander after a training exercise to prepare for the operation to re-take Mosul from Islamic State militants, in Baghdad, Iraq. Maya Alleruzzo / AP Photo
  • Kurdish Peshmerga forces fire a rocket toward Islamic State militants on the southeast of Mosul, Iraq. Azad Lashkari / Reuters
    Kurdish Peshmerga forces fire a rocket toward Islamic State militants on the southeast of Mosul, Iraq. Azad Lashkari / Reuters
  • An Egyptian woman holds a sign with Arabic that reads, "the demands are not only for Christians but for all Egyptians," during a protest against the latest surge of assaults on Christians in Cairo, Egypt. Nariman El-Mofty / AP Photo
    An Egyptian woman holds a sign with Arabic that reads, "the demands are not only for Christians but for all Egyptians," during a protest against the latest surge of assaults on Christians in Cairo, Egypt. Nariman El-Mofty / AP Photo
  • Sudanese men, inspect houses that were flooded as the river Gash burst its banks in the village of Makli, in the impoverished eastern state of Kasala bordering Eritrea. Ashraf Shazly / AFP
    Sudanese men, inspect houses that were flooded as the river Gash burst its banks in the village of Makli, in the impoverished eastern state of Kasala bordering Eritrea. Ashraf Shazly / AFP
  • Peshmerga general Najat Ali (C, seated) speaks on a mobile phone while sitting amongst soldiers during an operation to liberate several villages currently under the control of the Islamic State southeast of Mosul, north Iraq. Andrea Dicenzo / EPA
    Peshmerga general Najat Ali (C, seated) speaks on a mobile phone while sitting amongst soldiers during an operation to liberate several villages currently under the control of the Islamic State southeast of Mosul, north Iraq. Andrea Dicenzo / EPA
  • Women in the Kurdish-controlled city of Qamishly, mourn during the funeral of several fighters from an Arab-Kurdish alliance, who were killed during battles with the Islamic State group (IS) in the northern Syrian city of Manbij. Delil Souleiman / AFP
    Women in the Kurdish-controlled city of Qamishly, mourn during the funeral of several fighters from an Arab-Kurdish alliance, who were killed during battles with the Islamic State group (IS) in the northern Syrian city of Manbij. Delil Souleiman / AFP

Region in Focus: August 17, 2016

Fatima Al Marzouqi

August 17, 2016

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