The Middle East Framed - regional photography for March 16, 2019

We bring you the best photos from the Middle East and North Africa

Supporters of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) listen to his speech at a rally in Gaziantep, southeastern Turkey. AP

Iraqi Yazidi and Nobel Peace Laureate Nadia Mourad speaks with an elderly Yazidi cleric during the exhumation of a mass-grave of hundreds of Yazidis killed by ISIS militants in the northern Iraqi village of Kojo, Sinjar district. AFP

US rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers perform at the Giza Pyramids near Cairo. AFP

US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters celebrate after fighting ISIS jihadists near the village of Baghouz in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor. AFP

A woman gives balloons to an Israeli soldier near the border between Israel and Gaza on its Israeli side, March 15, 2019. Reuters

Followers of the Sabaean Mandean religious sect attend a cleansing ritual in the Tigris river on the on the occasion of Eid Al-Khalqeh (creation of the world) in Baghdad, Iraq. EPA

A Palestinian man carries his daughter as they walk in a plantation of walnut trees standing in the middle of a field of yellow mustard flowers, near the West Bank city of Jenin. EPA

Turkish police secure the plaza in front of he Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia, one of Istanbul's main tourist attractions. AP Photo

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