• People visit the "Valley of Peace" cemetery in Najaf, Iraq. Alaa Al-Marjani / Reuters
    People visit the "Valley of Peace" cemetery in Najaf, Iraq. Alaa Al-Marjani / Reuters
  • A Syrian man evacuates a child from the rubble of a destroyed building following air strikes on the Eastern Ghouta town of Douma. Sameer Al Doumy / AFP
    A Syrian man evacuates a child from the rubble of a destroyed building following air strikes on the Eastern Ghouta town of Douma. Sameer Al Doumy / AFP
  • Former Afghan Taliban fighters carry their weapons before handing them over as part of a government peace and reconciliation process at a ceremony in Jalalabad. Noorullah Shirzada / AFP
    Former Afghan Taliban fighters carry their weapons before handing them over as part of a government peace and reconciliation process at a ceremony in Jalalabad. Noorullah Shirzada / AFP
  • A Lebanese man rinses himself with fresh water after swimming in the Mediterranean Sea at the Ramlet al Bayda public beach, Beirut, Lebanon. Hassan Ammar / AP Photo
    A Lebanese man rinses himself with fresh water after swimming in the Mediterranean Sea at the Ramlet al Bayda public beach, Beirut, Lebanon. Hassan Ammar / AP Photo
  • Iraqi federal police officers demonstrate their skills during a ceremony marking 'Police Day', at the police academy in Baghdad. Karim Kadim / AP Photo
    Iraqi federal police officers demonstrate their skills during a ceremony marking 'Police Day', at the police academy in Baghdad. Karim Kadim / AP Photo
  • A Syrian man who was injured during government airstrikes looks on at a field hospital in the rebel-held Douma, Syria. Mohammed Badara / EPA
    A Syrian man who was injured during government airstrikes looks on at a field hospital in the rebel-held Douma, Syria. Mohammed Badara / EPA
  • Tourists walk backdropped by the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, better known as the Blue Mosque, after an explosion nearby killed several people and wounded fifteen in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul popular with tourists. Lefteris Pitarakis / AP Photo
    Tourists walk backdropped by the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, better known as the Blue Mosque, after an explosion nearby killed several people and wounded fifteen in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul popular with tourists. Lefteris Pitarakis / AP Photo
  • A man tries to hear the heart beat of his dead father, who died shortly after he was brought to a field hospital, following government airstrikes in the rebel-held Douma, Syria. Mohammed Badra / EPA
    A man tries to hear the heart beat of his dead father, who died shortly after he was brought to a field hospital, following government airstrikes in the rebel-held Douma, Syria. Mohammed Badra / EPA
  • A Syrian man walks past a window riddled with bullet-holes following clashes in the early hours between Syrian and Kurdish forces, in the northeastern city of Qamishli. Delil Souleiman / AFP
    A Syrian man walks past a window riddled with bullet-holes following clashes in the early hours between Syrian and Kurdish forces, in the northeastern city of Qamishli. Delil Souleiman / AFP
  • A girl carrying a baby inspects damage to a site hit by airstrikes, apparently carried out by the Russian air forces, in the town of Douma, Syria. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
    A girl carrying a baby inspects damage to a site hit by airstrikes, apparently carried out by the Russian air forces, in the town of Douma, Syria. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
  • An employee of a bakery talks on his mobile phone, whilst balancing on his head a tray of freshly baked bread from a local bakery in Cairo, Egypt. Asmaa Waguih / Reuters
    An employee of a bakery talks on his mobile phone, whilst balancing on his head a tray of freshly baked bread from a local bakery in Cairo, Egypt. Asmaa Waguih / Reuters
  • Iraqis collect their belongings from a damaged building, at the site targeted by a car bomb attack a day earlier, in the New Baghdad district, eastern Baghdad, Iraq. Ali Abbas / EPA
    Iraqis collect their belongings from a damaged building, at the site targeted by a car bomb attack a day earlier, in the New Baghdad district, eastern Baghdad, Iraq. Ali Abbas / EPA
  • The father of Maram, a ten-year-old Syrian girl who was reportedly killed in airstrikes that hit a kindergarten, carries her body before her funeral in the village of Deir al-Asafir in the rebel-held region of Eastern Ghouta. Amer Al Mohibany / AFP
    The father of Maram, a ten-year-old Syrian girl who was reportedly killed in airstrikes that hit a kindergarten, carries her body before her funeral in the village of Deir al-Asafir in the rebel-held region of Eastern Ghouta. Amer Al Mohibany / AFP

Region in focus - January 13, 2016

Fatima Al Marzouqi

January 13, 2016

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

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