• Anti-government protesters gather outside the provincial council building during protests demanding free elections and against corruption in Basra, Iraq. AP Photo
    Anti-government protesters gather outside the provincial council building during protests demanding free elections and against corruption in Basra, Iraq. AP Photo
  • Mahmud Moussa rests on a makeshift bed outside his house, which was destroyed in the Aug. 4 explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. AP Photo
    Mahmud Moussa rests on a makeshift bed outside his house, which was destroyed in the Aug. 4 explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. AP Photo
  • Palestinian workers cross illegaly into Israeli areas through a hole in Israel's barrier fence near the Mitar checkpoint and the village of al-Dahriya, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. AFP
    Palestinian workers cross illegaly into Israeli areas through a hole in Israel's barrier fence near the Mitar checkpoint and the village of al-Dahriya, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. AFP
  • Israeli infantry soldiers walk next to a tank and an armoured personnel carrier near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip. AFP
    Israeli infantry soldiers walk next to a tank and an armoured personnel carrier near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip. AFP
  • A Palestinian protester from a group calling themselves the 'Night Confusion Units' flashes the V-sign for victory as they gather near the Gaza-Israel border east of Al Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip. Israel's army launched new air strikes against Hamas positions in Gaza and closed the fishing zone around the Palestinian enclave in response to rockets and firebombs sent into Israeli territory. AFP
    A Palestinian protester from a group calling themselves the 'Night Confusion Units' flashes the V-sign for victory as they gather near the Gaza-Israel border east of Al Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip. Israel's army launched new air strikes against Hamas positions in Gaza and closed the fishing zone around the Palestinian enclave in response to rockets and firebombs sent into Israeli territory. AFP
  • A Syrian street vendor sells apples and prickly pears across from a mural painted as part of an awareness campaign by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organisation (WHO) intitative, bearing instructions on protection from Covid-19 in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli of Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province after a spike in infections in the area. AFP
    A Syrian street vendor sells apples and prickly pears across from a mural painted as part of an awareness campaign by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organisation (WHO) intitative, bearing instructions on protection from Covid-19 in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli of Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province after a spike in infections in the area. AFP
  • Iraqis lift national flags as they demonstrate near the governor's residence in the southern city of Basra, to protest assasinations and demand the resignation of top security officials in the governorate. AFP
    Iraqis lift national flags as they demonstrate near the governor's residence in the southern city of Basra, to protest assasinations and demand the resignation of top security officials in the governorate. AFP
  • Rubble of destroyed buildings is seen in a neighborhood near the site of the August 4 explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. AP Photo
    Rubble of destroyed buildings is seen in a neighborhood near the site of the August 4 explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. AP Photo

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