The Middle East framed - regional photography for March 7, 2020

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

An Afghan man waits for customers, near a graveyard at a hilltop, as he sells dates in Kabul. Reuters

A driver competes during a drift racing in the eastern Libyan port city of Benghazi. AFP

Young men sit along a wall in front of the citadel of Arbil, in the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region. AFP

A liquorice juice vendor serves a customer in front of the citadel of Arbil, in the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region. AFP

Anti-government protesters use slingshots to fire stones at security forces during clashes in Baghdad, Iraq. AP Photo

A boy rides a bicycle past the mural-painted walls of a closed-down UN school in Gaza City, following a government decision to suspend schools due to fears of the spread of Covid-19 disease. AFP

Migrants travel on a horse carriage near the Turkey's Pazarkule border crossing in Edirne, Turkey. Reuters

Members of Palestinian Civil Defence work on a flooded street as boys cross in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP

A US soldier stands by as Colonel Myles Caggins, official military spokesperson for international military intervention against Isis, speaks at a military base in Rumaylan in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province. AFP

Iman Ramezanpoudelavari from Iran loses his men's Welterweight bout with Maimaiti Aihemaiti from China at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic boxing qualifiers tournament in Amman, Jordan. EPA

A hologram of legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum is projected on stage at Cairo Opera House, about 45 years after the performer's death. AFP

Visitors view the step pyramid of Djoser in Egypt's Saqqara necropolis, south of the capital Cairo. AFP

An Algerian protester in traditional Amazigh (Berber) attire flashes the sign of fictory in front of a cordon of anti-riot police during the weekly anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers. AFP

Workers disinfect the ground around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. AP Photo

A man walks past a building where gunmen were hiding during an attack the day before, in Kabul, Afghanistan. EPA

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