• Children jump off the ruin of an old building into the Tigris River to beat the heat in Baghdad, Iraq. Hadi Mizban / AP Photo
    Children jump off the ruin of an old building into the Tigris River to beat the heat in Baghdad, Iraq. Hadi Mizban / AP Photo
  • Palestinian children play in a tent near their destroyed home damaged during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict in Al Shejaeiya neighbourhood in the east of Gaza City. Mohammed Saber / EPA
    Palestinian children play in a tent near their destroyed home damaged during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict in Al Shejaeiya neighbourhood in the east of Gaza City. Mohammed Saber / EPA
  • Men walk amidst rubble and debris in the Qadi Askar district of Aleppo, Syria. Zein Al-Rifai / AFP
    Men walk amidst rubble and debris in the Qadi Askar district of Aleppo, Syria. Zein Al-Rifai / AFP
  • A veiled Egyptian woman poses for a picture as she sits outside her home situated at a cemetery in the so-called City of the Dead, a slum where half a million people live among tombs in Cairo, Egypt. Hassan Ammar / AP Photo
    A veiled Egyptian woman poses for a picture as she sits outside her home situated at a cemetery in the so-called City of the Dead, a slum where half a million people live among tombs in Cairo, Egypt. Hassan Ammar / AP Photo
  • Ghadeer (back), 19, and Fadi (front), 26, the children of Adnan Al Najar, are seen outside their destroyed house damaged during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict, nearly a year later, in Khoza-a neighborhood in the east of Khan Younis town, in the southern Gaza Strip. Mohammed Saber / EPA
    Ghadeer (back), 19, and Fadi (front), 26, the children of Adnan Al Najar, are seen outside their destroyed house damaged during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict, nearly a year later, in Khoza-a neighborhood in the east of Khan Younis town, in the southern Gaza Strip. Mohammed Saber / EPA
  • An Iraqi man grieves after losing several members of his family after a Russian-made fighter jet accidentally dropped a bomb over a Baghdad neighborhood. Hadi Mizban / AP Photo
    An Iraqi man grieves after losing several members of his family after a Russian-made fighter jet accidentally dropped a bomb over a Baghdad neighborhood. Hadi Mizban / AP Photo
  • Iraq's Shi'ite paramilitaries launch a rocket towards Islamic State militants, north of Fallujah, in the province of Anbar. Reuters
    Iraq's Shi'ite paramilitaries launch a rocket towards Islamic State militants, north of Fallujah, in the province of Anbar. Reuters
  • Afghan women hold placards, demanding justice for a woman who was killed by men who falsly accused her of burning a copy of the holy Koran, during a protest held by the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan in Kabul. SHAH Marai / AFP
    Afghan women hold placards, demanding justice for a woman who was killed by men who falsly accused her of burning a copy of the holy Koran, during a protest held by the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan in Kabul. SHAH Marai / AFP
  • Palestinian children look out their house, painted by a group of young men as part of a campaign dubbed "Colour of Hope", in the Al-Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza City. Mohammed Salem / Reuters
    Palestinian children look out their house, painted by a group of young men as part of a campaign dubbed "Colour of Hope", in the Al-Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza City. Mohammed Salem / Reuters
  • A girl reads the Koran at a school during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Benghazi, Libya. Esam Omran Al-Fetori / Reuters
    A girl reads the Koran at a school during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Benghazi, Libya. Esam Omran Al-Fetori / Reuters

Region in focus - July 8, 2015

James O’Hara

July 08, 2015

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A selection of the best images from around the Gulf and across the Middle East this past week.

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