The best images of the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.
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Aftermath: onlookers stand where just moments before a car bomb had exploded outside a police station in Libya's second city of Benghazi. Abdullah Doma -
Clean sweep: a street cleaner sweeps a street in Kabul, Afghanistan. Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images -
For my next trick: a goat balances on a shisha pipe by a roadside on the outskirts of Faisalabad, Pakistan. Fayyaz Hussain / Reuters -
Time for a rest: a girl who fled with her family from the violence in their village rests at a displaced camp, in the Syrian village of Atma, near the Turkish border. Khalil Hamra / AP Photo -
Sad reflection: crying in despair, a Palestinian woman, reflected in a mirror from furniture strewn outside her home, stands in front of the rubble of her house after it was demolished by Jerusalem municipality workers in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Atur. Ahmad Gharabli / AFP -
Got it in a nutshell: a Pakistani vendor prepares peanuts on a roadside in Peshawar, Pakistan. Arshad Arbab / EPA -
A soft touch: Moayed, a nine-year-old Syrian refugee, lies on clumps of cotton as other Syrians work in a cotton field in the village of Bukulmez on the Turkish-Syrian border, in Hatay province. Murad Sezer / Reuters -
Weekly event: Palestinian prostesters throw stones at Israeli soldiers during their weekly demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kfar Qaddum near the West Bank city of Nablus. Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP -
Running for cover: Syrians rin for their lives as a second bomb explodes while they were trying to rescue victims injured in a previous bombing by government forces in a nearby building in the northern Syrian city of Al-Bab, 40 kilometres north-east of Aleppo. Philippe Desmazes / AFP -
Fighting to the bitter end: a rebel fighter fires a gun towards a building where Syrian troops loyal to President Bashar Al Assad are hiding in the Jedida district of Aleppo. Narciso Contreras / AP Photo -
All clear ahead: US soldiers blow up a roadside bomb set up by Taliban fighters near the town of Walli Was in Paktika province, near the border with Pakistan. Goran Tomasevic / Reuters -
A mother's grief: as Palestinian Ahmed Al Nabahin, 23, lies dead his other cannot hide her grief during his funeral in the Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza Strip. Hatem Moussa / AP Photo
The best photography from around the region this week: November 8, 2012
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