• A Palestinian man sells ballons ahead of New Year's celebrations in Gaza City. AFP
    A Palestinian man sells ballons ahead of New Year's celebrations in Gaza City. AFP
  • Members of the Self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) special forces attend a graduation ceremony in Benghazi. AFP
    Members of the Self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) special forces attend a graduation ceremony in Benghazi. AFP
  • Self-proclaimed Libyan National Army's (LNA) Chief of special forces Major General Wanis Boukhmada (1st-R) attends a graduation ceremony in Benghazi. AFP
    Self-proclaimed Libyan National Army's (LNA) Chief of special forces Major General Wanis Boukhmada (1st-R) attends a graduation ceremony in Benghazi. AFP
  • Egyptians take a photo near an illumination in the shape of a peacock ahead of New Year celebrations, at the pedestrian area of Soho Square in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, south of Cairo, Egypt. Reuters
    Egyptians take a photo near an illumination in the shape of a peacock ahead of New Year celebrations, at the pedestrian area of Soho Square in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, south of Cairo, Egypt. Reuters
  • Egyptians and tourists walk around illuminations in various shapes ahead of New Year celebrations, at the pedestrian area of Soho Square in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, south of Cairo, Egypt. Reuters
    Egyptians and tourists walk around illuminations in various shapes ahead of New Year celebrations, at the pedestrian area of Soho Square in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, south of Cairo, Egypt. Reuters
  • Children of suspected ISIS fighters board a Russian plane at the runway of Baghdad International Airport. EPA
    Children of suspected ISIS fighters board a Russian plane at the runway of Baghdad International Airport. EPA
  • Syrian national flag flying over a building as regime forces gather in the southern countryside of the northern Kurdish-controlled city of Manbij. The unexpected US pullout announcement left Syria's Kurds scrambling to find a new ally in the Damascus regime, as they feared losing US support would leave them exposed to a long-threatened Turkish assault. AFP
    Syrian national flag flying over a building as regime forces gather in the southern countryside of the northern Kurdish-controlled city of Manbij. The unexpected US pullout announcement left Syria's Kurds scrambling to find a new ally in the Damascus regime, as they feared losing US support would leave them exposed to a long-threatened Turkish assault. AFP
  • Members of the Syrian regime forces walk near buildings in the southern countryside of the northern Kurdish-controlled city of Manbij. The unexpected US pullout announcement left Syria's Kurds scrambling to find a new ally in the Damascus regime, as they feared losing US support would leave them exposed to a long-threatened Turkish assault. AFP
    Members of the Syrian regime forces walk near buildings in the southern countryside of the northern Kurdish-controlled city of Manbij. The unexpected US pullout announcement left Syria's Kurds scrambling to find a new ally in the Damascus regime, as they feared losing US support would leave them exposed to a long-threatened Turkish assault. AFP
  • A Palestinian woman shelters from rain in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Reuters
    A Palestinian woman shelters from rain in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Reuters
  • Buthaina al-Rimi, a Yemeni girl whose home was destroyed by an 2017 air strike in the capital Sanaa, killing all her family members and injuring her face, plays with a brick toy as she sits in her uncle's house in Sanaa. AFP
    Buthaina al-Rimi, a Yemeni girl whose home was destroyed by an 2017 air strike in the capital Sanaa, killing all her family members and injuring her face, plays with a brick toy as she sits in her uncle's house in Sanaa. AFP

The Middle East Framed - regional photography for December 31, 2018

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