• Syrian people walk amid destruction in the Bab al-Qinnasrin area in Aleppo's Old city. AFP
    Syrian people walk amid destruction in the Bab al-Qinnasrin area in Aleppo's Old city. AFP
  • Kuwaiti school students carry and march with a 2,019-metre-long national flag in a bid to claim a place in the Guinness Book of World Records with world's longest national flag, in Kuwait City, Kuwait. According to media reports, more than 4,000 school students and teachers carried the 2,019-metre-long national flag to claim a place in the Guinness Book of World Records, as part of the Kuwaiti celebrations of the 58th anniversary of the Independence Day. EPA
    Kuwaiti school students carry and march with a 2,019-metre-long national flag in a bid to claim a place in the Guinness Book of World Records with world's longest national flag, in Kuwait City, Kuwait. According to media reports, more than 4,000 school students and teachers carried the 2,019-metre-long national flag to claim a place in the Guinness Book of World Records, as part of the Kuwaiti celebrations of the 58th anniversary of the Independence Day. EPA
  • Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, meets with Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement leader Ziad Nakhala, left, heading a Palestinian delegation, at the Iranian embassy in southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. Zarif arrived in Beirut for an official visit where he will meet with Lebanese officials. EPA
    Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, meets with Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement leader Ziad Nakhala, left, heading a Palestinian delegation, at the Iranian embassy in southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. Zarif arrived in Beirut for an official visit where he will meet with Lebanese officials. EPA
  • Ashraf Saber, who runs a pet motel and shelter, feeds cats at the motel in Giza, Egypt. EPA
    Ashraf Saber, who runs a pet motel and shelter, feeds cats at the motel in Giza, Egypt. EPA
  • Tamer Attallah, left, drummer, Hani El Dakkak, centre, lead singer and guitarist, and Mahmoud Siam, right, guitarist for Egyptian rock band Massar Egbari, warm up in a recording studio in the Egyptian capital Cairo. AFP
    Tamer Attallah, left, drummer, Hani El Dakkak, centre, lead singer and guitarist, and Mahmoud Siam, right, guitarist for Egyptian rock band Massar Egbari, warm up in a recording studio in the Egyptian capital Cairo. AFP
  • An altar boy shakes people’s hands during Sunday service at Mart Shmony Orthodox Church in Erbil, Kurdish region of Iraq. AP
    An altar boy shakes people’s hands during Sunday service at Mart Shmony Orthodox Church in Erbil, Kurdish region of Iraq. AP
  • Palestinians check damage in a demolished house in the village of Walajah, near Bethlehem, West Bank. The Israeli army demolished Palestinian houses in area C, where Palestinians can not get the needed permits to build from Israeli authorities. EPA
    Palestinians check damage in a demolished house in the village of Walajah, near Bethlehem, West Bank. The Israeli army demolished Palestinian houses in area C, where Palestinians can not get the needed permits to build from Israeli authorities. EPA
  • Mohammad Ali, a 28-year-old Canadian extremist captured by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), speaks to AFP at a detention centre in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh. Ali, who joined ISIS in 2014 under the nom de guerre Abu Turab al-Kanadi, was captured while trying to flee north into Turkey with his Canadian wife and two children. AFP
    Mohammad Ali, a 28-year-old Canadian extremist captured by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), speaks to AFP at a detention centre in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh. Ali, who joined ISIS in 2014 under the nom de guerre Abu Turab al-Kanadi, was captured while trying to flee north into Turkey with his Canadian wife and two children. AFP

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