• Palestinian vendor waits to sell sacrificial animals at a livestock market ahead of Eid al-Adha, in the West Bank town of Nablus. EPA
    Palestinian vendor waits to sell sacrificial animals at a livestock market ahead of Eid al-Adha, in the West Bank town of Nablus. EPA
  • Palestinian vendors sell sacrificial animals at a livestock market ahead of Eid al-Adha, in the West Bank town of Nablus. EPA
    Palestinian vendors sell sacrificial animals at a livestock market ahead of Eid al-Adha, in the West Bank town of Nablus. EPA
  • Palestinian farmers inspect Azolla plants on their land in Beit Lahiya, southern Gaza Strip. EPA
    Palestinian farmers inspect Azolla plants on their land in Beit Lahiya, southern Gaza Strip. EPA
  • A Palestinian farmer inspects Azolla plants on his land in Beit Lahiya, southern Gaza Strip. EPA
    A Palestinian farmer inspects Azolla plants on his land in Beit Lahiya, southern Gaza Strip. EPA
  • Syrian soldiers, from the engineering corp, prepare to detonate explosives in the Eastern Ghouta town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus. AFP
    Syrian soldiers, from the engineering corp, prepare to detonate explosives in the Eastern Ghouta town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus. AFP
  • Syrian soldiers, from the engineering corp, take part in a demining training near the Syrian capital Damascus. AFP
    Syrian soldiers, from the engineering corp, take part in a demining training near the Syrian capital Damascus. AFP
  • A Syrian man checks a market in the old city of Aleppo, Syria. Much of Aleppo's centuries-old covered market is still in ruins but slowly small parts of it have been renovated where business is slowly coming back to normal nearly three years after major battles in Syria's largest city and once commercial centre came to an end. AP
    A Syrian man checks a market in the old city of Aleppo, Syria. Much of Aleppo's centuries-old covered market is still in ruins but slowly small parts of it have been renovated where business is slowly coming back to normal nearly three years after major battles in Syria's largest city and once commercial centre came to an end. AP
  • A Syrian man walks on the newly renovated al-Saqatiyah Market in the old city of Aleppo, Syria. Much of Aleppo's centuries-old covered market is still in ruins but slowly small parts of it have been renovated where business is slowly coming back to normal nearly three years after major battles in Syria's largest city and once commercial centre came to an end. AP
    A Syrian man walks on the newly renovated al-Saqatiyah Market in the old city of Aleppo, Syria. Much of Aleppo's centuries-old covered market is still in ruins but slowly small parts of it have been renovated where business is slowly coming back to normal nearly three years after major battles in Syria's largest city and once commercial centre came to an end. AP
  • Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Ali Hakim, and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi meet in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AFP
    Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Ali Hakim, and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi meet in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AFP
  • Egyptians walk outside the National Cancer Institute in the capital Cairo, where an accident took place just before midnight the previous day. At least 19 people were killed and more than 30 injured when a speeding car driving against traffic crashed into three others causing a huge explosion in the capital, the Egyptian health ministry said today. AFP
    Egyptians walk outside the National Cancer Institute in the capital Cairo, where an accident took place just before midnight the previous day. At least 19 people were killed and more than 30 injured when a speeding car driving against traffic crashed into three others causing a huge explosion in the capital, the Egyptian health ministry said today. AFP
  • Belongings of victims lie amid rubble outside the National Cancer Institute after an overnight fire from a blast, Cairo, Egypt. EPA
    Belongings of victims lie amid rubble outside the National Cancer Institute after an overnight fire from a blast, Cairo, Egypt. EPA
  • Members of the Saudi special forces exercise their skills to perform during a military parade in preparation for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, in the Muslim holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia. AP
    Members of the Saudi special forces exercise their skills to perform during a military parade in preparation for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, in the Muslim holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia. AP
  • The Saudi honour guards perform during a military parade in preparation for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, in the Muslim holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia. AP
    The Saudi honour guards perform during a military parade in preparation for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, in the Muslim holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia. AP

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