Region in focus - September 5, 2014

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  A Syrian man collects vegetables from a vegetable patch locals grew at the site where a barrel bomb hit a sewage pipe in the Baedeen neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Zein Al Rifai /AFP

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  A rebel fighter jumps through a hoop of fire as he demonstrates his skills during a military display as part of a graduating ceremony at a camp in eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters

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  A Kurdish peshmerga fighter fires an RPG at an advancing Islamic State vehicle during front line clashes at Buyuk Yeniga village, after the village was retaken. Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters

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  Vehicles carrying followers of the Shi’ite Houthi movement drive on a road leading to the movement’s camp in southern Sanaa. Khaled Abdullah / Reuters

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  Naeem al- Jezzi serves glasses with tea in the rubble of what used to be his house and was severely damaged by fighting between Hamas militants and Israel during a conflict that saw over 2,100 Palestinians killed hundreds of thousands displaced by the fighting. Roberto Schmidt / AFP

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  Displaced Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim Mohammed Harith Youssif, 25, walks with his 20-year-old bride Reem Ahmed, a Sunni Muslim who fled from the violence in Mosul, during their wedding at a school in Baghdad. The Sh’ite Muslim man married his Sunni Muslim bride in Baghdad on Monday, after the couple had fled violence by Islamic State militants in their home town of Mosul. Thaier Al-Sudani/ Reuters

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  Iraqi girls who fled their homes with their families due to violence in northern Iraq are seen in a school where they are taking shelter, in Arbil in the autonomous Kurdistan region. Hundreds of thousands of children in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region are facing an ‘education emergency’ after being forced from their homes, with hundreds of schools used to shelter displaced families. Ali Al Saadi / AFP

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  Mourners carry the coffins of Shi’ite volunteers from the Brigades of Peace, who are loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, during their funeral in Najaf, south of Baghdad. The volunteers were killed when an improvised explosive device exploded near the town of Amerli. Alaa Al-Marjani / Reuters

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

Edit and sequencing by Assigning Photo Editor RJ Mickelson