• Anti-government protesters use a large slingshot to fire stones at security forces during clashes in Baghdad, Iraq. AP Photo
    Anti-government protesters use a large slingshot to fire stones at security forces during clashes in Baghdad, Iraq. AP Photo
  • A displaced Syrian child scratches his eye at the Washukanni camp for the internally displaced in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. AFP
    A displaced Syrian child scratches his eye at the Washukanni camp for the internally displaced in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. AFP
  • A displaced Syrian woman stands next to her cart, selling chicken, at the Washukanni camp for the internally displaced in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. AFP
    A displaced Syrian woman stands next to her cart, selling chicken, at the Washukanni camp for the internally displaced in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. AFP
  • Participants of a demonstration on motorcycles in support of former Prime Minister and leader of the Future Movement Saad Hariri in front of his house in central Beirut, Lebanon. EPA
    Participants of a demonstration on motorcycles in support of former Prime Minister and leader of the Future Movement Saad Hariri in front of his house in central Beirut, Lebanon. EPA
  • An aerial picture taken by drone shows a general view of Galata Tower and empty streets during curfew in Istanbul, Turkey. EPA
    An aerial picture taken by drone shows a general view of Galata Tower and empty streets during curfew in Istanbul, Turkey. EPA
  • Boys eat popcorn during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Bilad al-Qadeem suburb of the Bahraini capital Manama, amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. AFP
    Boys eat popcorn during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Bilad al-Qadeem suburb of the Bahraini capital Manama, amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. AFP
  • Kurdish Muslims attend Al Fajr prayer in the early morning during the holy month Ramadan at a mosque in Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq. EPA
    Kurdish Muslims attend Al Fajr prayer in the early morning during the holy month Ramadan at a mosque in Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq. EPA
  • TOPSHOT - Palestinian English programme students wear protective face masks as they take an end of year exam at their school in Gaza City on May 10, 2020 during the novel corona virus epidemic crisis. / AFP / MOHAMMED ABED
    TOPSHOT - Palestinian English programme students wear protective face masks as they take an end of year exam at their school in Gaza City on May 10, 2020 during the novel corona virus epidemic crisis. / AFP / MOHAMMED ABED
  • TOPSHOT - Palestinian bodybuilding trainer Muhammad Jaafreh (R) practices during a training session on his building's rooftop with his student Abed Ghurayyib, as the gym is closed amid the COVID-19 lockdown, in the village of Tarqumiah, north-west of the West Bank city of Hebron, on May 10, 2020. / AFP / HAZEM BADER
    TOPSHOT - Palestinian bodybuilding trainer Muhammad Jaafreh (R) practices during a training session on his building's rooftop with his student Abed Ghurayyib, as the gym is closed amid the COVID-19 lockdown, in the village of Tarqumiah, north-west of the West Bank city of Hebron, on May 10, 2020. / AFP / HAZEM BADER
  • In this Tuesday, May 5, 2020 photo, Faiqqa Homsi holds her daughter Maya, who was diagnosed with cancer, on her apartment balcony in the Mulawiya slum of the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon. Residents of Lebanon's poorest city, Tripoli, despair as the country faces a terrifying confluence of events. An unprecedented economic crisis, nationwide protests and coronavirus restrictions are posing the biggest threat to stability since the end of the civil war in 1990. Nowhere is the pain more felt than in Tripoli, hometown of Homsi, a mother of five who feels her family is being pushed closer to the edge. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
    In this Tuesday, May 5, 2020 photo, Faiqqa Homsi holds her daughter Maya, who was diagnosed with cancer, on her apartment balcony in the Mulawiya slum of the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon. Residents of Lebanon's poorest city, Tripoli, despair as the country faces a terrifying confluence of events. An unprecedented economic crisis, nationwide protests and coronavirus restrictions are posing the biggest threat to stability since the end of the civil war in 1990. Nowhere is the pain more felt than in Tripoli, hometown of Homsi, a mother of five who feels her family is being pushed closer to the edge. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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