• Afghans listen to a speech by Afghan presidential candidate Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf during a campaign rally in Kabul. Rahmat Gul / AP Photo
    Afghans listen to a speech by Afghan presidential candidate Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf during a campaign rally in Kabul. Rahmat Gul / AP Photo
  • A Palestinian labourer pushes a wheelbarrow at a cement factory in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Said Khatib / AFP Photo
    A Palestinian labourer pushes a wheelbarrow at a cement factory in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Said Khatib / AFP Photo
  • An Afghan child labourer poses at a market in Kabul. Wakil Kohsar / AFP
    An Afghan child labourer poses at a market in Kabul. Wakil Kohsar / AFP
  • A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his weapon towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during clashes to take over Al-Milh square in Aleppo. Abdalrhman Ismail / Reuters
    A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his weapon towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during clashes to take over Al-Milh square in Aleppo. Abdalrhman Ismail / Reuters
  • Seen through a car's windshield, Pakistani men run for shelter during rainfall in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo
    Seen through a car's windshield, Pakistani men run for shelter during rainfall in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo
  • A Pakistani man, who was displaced from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, holds an umbrella to shelter himself and his son and himself from the rain. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo
    A Pakistani man, who was displaced from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between the Taliban and the army, holds an umbrella to shelter himself and his son and himself from the rain. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo
  • Syriac Christians from Turkey and Syria attend a mass at the Mort Shmuni Syriac Orthodox Church in the town of Midyat, in Mardin province of southeast Turkey. Umit Bektas / Reuters
    Syriac Christians from Turkey and Syria attend a mass at the Mort Shmuni Syriac Orthodox Church in the town of Midyat, in Mardin province of southeast Turkey. Umit Bektas / Reuters
  • Syrian refugees play at the yard in front of the first hypermarket that is opened in Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees. Salah Malkawi / Getty Images
    Syrian refugees play at the yard in front of the first hypermarket that is opened in Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees. Salah Malkawi / Getty Images
  • Afghan children play in the snow at Shuhada Lake in Kabul. Wakil Kohsar / AFP
    Afghan children play in the snow at Shuhada Lake in Kabul. Wakil Kohsar / AFP

Region in Focus - February 11, 2014


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The best images from the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.