The best images from the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.
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Palestinian children do their homework during a power cut in an impoverished area in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis. Mahmud Hams / AFP -
A minaret of a mosque is pictured during sunset on the first day of the New Islamic Hijri year 1438 in old Islamic Cairo, Egypt. Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters -
Muslim pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Amr Nabil / AP Photo -
Oil fields in the town of Qayyarah are seen burning nearly a month after fleeing Islamic State militants set fire to the oil. Slow-going Iraqi efforts to contain the fires have failed to dampen the smoke and toxic fumes polluting the air in and around Qayyarah. Bram Janssen / AP Photo -
Civilians travel in a convey from Dibaga Camp to their homes in Qayyarah, Iraq. Cengiz Yar / AP Photo -
A Palestinian man carries a sheet of ground olives to be made into oil at an olive press in Gaza City. Mohammed Salem / Reuters -
Taxi drivers wait for passengers along a street in Kabul, Afghanistan. Omar Sobhani / Reuters -
Palestinian supporters of the Palestinian National Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas hold his portrait during a support Rally in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Atef Safadi / EPA -
Young Afghan labourers, eleven year-old Aman (L) and nine year-old Shokor (R) sit alongside a road as they count their money after a day of work before they go home in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Farshad Usyan / AFP -
Region in Focus: October 5, 2016
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