• Syrians are silhouetted as they walk in a street in the northern city of Aleppo. Javier Manzano / AFP Photo
    Syrians are silhouetted as they walk in a street in the northern city of Aleppo. Javier Manzano / AFP Photo
  • Afghan boys wrap themselves in blankets to avoid the evening cold on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo
    Afghan boys wrap themselves in blankets to avoid the evening cold on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo
  • A Pakistani vendor selling fish awaits customers in Islamabad. Farooq Naeem / AFP Photo
    A Pakistani vendor selling fish awaits customers in Islamabad. Farooq Naeem / AFP Photo
  • A man collects his belongings after his home was damaged following heavy fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and government forces in Aleppo, Syria. Narciso Contreras / AP Photo
    A man collects his belongings after his home was damaged following heavy fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and government forces in Aleppo, Syria. Narciso Contreras / AP Photo
  • A Bedouin camp is seen in the E1 area, between Jerusalem and the Israeli West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim. Menahem Kahana / AFP Photo
    A Bedouin camp is seen in the E1 area, between Jerusalem and the Israeli West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim. Menahem Kahana / AFP Photo
  • Pakistani Islamic seminary students carry the coffin of cleric Mufti Ismail, who was killed by gumen, during his funeral in Karachi. Asif Hassan / AFP Photo
    Pakistani Islamic seminary students carry the coffin of cleric Mufti Ismail, who was killed by gumen, during his funeral in Karachi. Asif Hassan / AFP Photo
  • A Syrian girl chants slogans during a demonstration after Friday prayers in the Bustan Al-Qasr district of Aleppo. Narciso Contreras / AP Photo
    A Syrian girl chants slogans during a demonstration after Friday prayers in the Bustan Al-Qasr district of Aleppo. Narciso Contreras / AP Photo
  • Protesters chant slogans and wave national flags in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. Maya Alleruzzo / AP Photo
    Protesters chant slogans and wave national flags in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. Maya Alleruzzo / AP Photo
  • Syrian children look through their car window as they cross into Lebanon with their families at the border crossing, in Masnaa, eastern Lebanon. Hassan Ammar / AP Photo
    Syrian children look through their car window as they cross into Lebanon with their families at the border crossing, in Masnaa, eastern Lebanon. Hassan Ammar / AP Photo
  • Internally displaced Afghan children play inside a mud shelter at a makeshift camp as winter approaches in Kabul. Shah Marai / AFP Photo
    Internally displaced Afghan children play inside a mud shelter at a makeshift camp as winter approaches in Kabul. Shah Marai / AFP Photo
  • A woman covered with mud checks her reflection in a mirror on the shore of the Dead Sea, near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Mitzpe Shalem. Marko Djurica / Reuters
    A woman covered with mud checks her reflection in a mirror on the shore of the Dead Sea, near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Mitzpe Shalem. Marko Djurica / Reuters
  • Syrians walk past damaged homes during heavy fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and government forces in Aleppo, Syria. Narciso Contreras / AP Photo
    Syrians walk past damaged homes during heavy fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and government forces in Aleppo, Syria. Narciso Contreras / AP Photo

The best photography from around the region this week: December 6, 2012


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

Photo edit and sequencing by photo editor James O’Hara