• A Lebanese protester walks past burning tyres during ongoing anti-government demonstrations in Beirut. AFP
    A Lebanese protester walks past burning tyres during ongoing anti-government demonstrations in Beirut. AFP
  • A Lebanese protester walks past burning tyres during ongoing anti-government demonstrations in Beirut. AP Photo
    A Lebanese protester walks past burning tyres during ongoing anti-government demonstrations in Beirut. AP Photo
  • An employee inspects the main hall of the defunct Palestinian Parliament in the West Bank city of Ramallah. AFP
    An employee inspects the main hall of the defunct Palestinian Parliament in the West Bank city of Ramallah. AFP
  • A woman mourns during the funeral of two Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters in the Syrian Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli. AFP
    A woman mourns during the funeral of two Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters in the Syrian Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli. AFP
  • The two SDF fighters were killed in Turkish drone strike. AFP
    The two SDF fighters were killed in Turkish drone strike. AFP
  • A press tour organised by the US-led coalition fighting the remnants of ISIS shows a view of the damage susttained at Ain Al Asad military airbase housing US and other foreign troops in the western Iraqi province of Anbar. AFP
    A press tour organised by the US-led coalition fighting the remnants of ISIS shows a view of the damage susttained at Ain Al Asad military airbase housing US and other foreign troops in the western Iraqi province of Anbar. AFP
  • Flooding in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan region. AFP
    Flooding in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan region. AFP
  • A Yemeni winnows wheat in Sanaa, Yemen. EPA
    A Yemeni winnows wheat in Sanaa, Yemen. EPA
  • Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is received by Asaad bin Tariq, brother of Oman's new leader Sultan Haitham, alongside Oman's Minister of State for Foreign affairs Yusuf bin Alawi, second right, in Muscat AFP
    Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is received by Asaad bin Tariq, brother of Oman's new leader Sultan Haitham, alongside Oman's Minister of State for Foreign affairs Yusuf bin Alawi, second right, in Muscat AFP
  • Spanish King Felipe VI offers condolences to Oman's new Sultan Haitham on the death of Sultan Qaboos. EPA
    Spanish King Felipe VI offers condolences to Oman's new Sultan Haitham on the death of Sultan Qaboos. EPA
  • Sultan Haitham bin Tariq receives the Grand Imam of Egypt’s Al Azhar mosque Dr Ahmed Al Tayeb in the capital Muscat. AFP
    Sultan Haitham bin Tariq receives the Grand Imam of Egypt’s Al Azhar mosque Dr Ahmed Al Tayeb in the capital Muscat. AFP

The Middle East Framed - regional photography for January 14, 2020


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