Region in Focus - October 25, 2014

A fighter of Libya’s Fajr Libya group (Libyan Dawn) points at a hole in the wall that came as a result of clashes in the hill village of Kikla, southwest of Tripoli. The internationally recognised Libyan government called for a civil disobedience campaign in Tripoli until its forces retake the capital from militias who seized it. Mahmud Turkia / AFP

Syrian Kurdish refugees from Kobani, peer from a tent at a refugee camp in Suruc, near the Turkey-Syria border. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. Vadim Ghirda / AP Photo

Thick smoke and flames from an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition rise in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. Lefteris Pitarakis / AP Photo

People visit the Great Temple of Ramses II, to observe the sun to send a beam of light into the ancient temple’s dark inner chamber for over ten minutes in Abu Simbel, 870 kilometers (540 miles) south of Cairo. Hundreds of people visited the temple to watch the sun illuminate colossal statues, a rare 3,200-year-old astronomical ceremony that happens twice a year. Ibrahim Zayed / AP Photo

Statues by Palestinian artist Eyad Sabbah, 40, stand amidst the rubble of buildings destroyed during the 50 days of conflict between Israel and Hamas last summer, in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City. The statues are made of fiberglass and covered with clay and are depictions of the Palestinians who fled their houses from Israeli shelling during the most recent conflict. Mahmud Hams / AFP

Men pray while facing the Syrian town of Kobani near the Mursitpinar border crossing, on the Turkish-Syrian border in Suruc, Sanliurfa province, Turkey. Turkey announced that they will allow Iraqi Kurdish forces to cross its territory to reinforce the Syrian Kurdish militia in the besieged city of Kobani. Gokhan Sahin / Getty Images

Kurdish woman Ghazal Daban, whose son is fighting in the Syrian town of Kobane also known as Ain al-Arab, gathers with Kurdish men around a bonfire in the southeastern Turkish village of Mursitpinar in the Sanliurfa province. Kurdish defenders of the strategic Syrian border town of Kobane awaited reinforcements after weathering another onslaught by Islamic State jihadists. Bulent Kilic / AFP

A Yemeni man stands beneath posters of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana’a, Yemen. Reports state that a United Nations team of experts on the sanctions committee in Yemen suspect five individuals of obstructing the transitional process in Yemen, including former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, his son, Ahmed. Yahya Arhab / EPA

Family members of Abdel Rahman Al-Shaludi, the Palestinian that was killed by Police yesterday after he drove his car into passengers at a rail station causing the death of a 3 month old baby, mourn at the house in Silwan, Israel. The incident occurred at a light rail train station at Ammunition hill, Al-Shaludi drove his car onto the tracks hitting passengers disembarking from the train, injuring seven more people. Ilia Yefimovich / Getty Images

Palestinian youth seen during clashes with police in Issawia. The clashes accured one day after a terror run over by Palestinian man, killing a baby and injuring seven people in Jerusalem. Ilia Yefimovich / Getty Images

A girl rests at the Nabaa Al-Hayat centre for education and psychosocial support for children in places undergoing a crisis, in eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters

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