Region in focus: January 11, 2017

Syrian children play next to a destroyed building in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus. Abd Doumany / AFP

An Ethiopian Christian Pilgrim performs baptism at the Qasr al-Yahud baptism site by the Jordan river, near the West Bank city of Jericho. Alaa Badarneh / EPA

A fighter from the Free Syrian Army plays with a dog at a checkpoint which they'd captured from Islamic State (IS) group jihadists near the town of Qabasin, located northeast of the city of Al-Bab, some 30 kilometres from Aleppo. Nazeer al-Khatib / AFP

Palestinians walk along a beach in Gaza City. Mohammed Salem / Reuters

People walk on Istiklal Street, while a tram passes, on a snowy day in Istanbul, Turkey. Sedat Suna / EPA

A displaced Iraqi girl, who fled the ongoing figthing between Islamic State (IS) group jihadists and government forces around Mosul, plays jump rope at the Khazer refugee camp near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aski kalak, 40 km West of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP

Egyptian boys play billiards at a street in Bulaq neighborhood, Cairo, Egypt. Khaled Elfiqi / EPA

A bedouin leads his camel herd outside the west bank city of Jericho. Alaa Badrneh / EPA

A Palestinian refugee and his children, warm up in front of a fire outside their makeshift house during a power outage, in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. Mohammed Saber / EPA

A Syrian man rides a bicycle in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the capital, Damascus. Abd Doumany / AFP

A young vegetable vendor rests at the Khazer refugee camp, for displaced people who fled the violence in the Islamic State (IS) group stronghold of Mosul, near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aski kalak, 40 km West of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP

A Syrian girl looks outside a window in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus. Abd Doumany / AFP

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