• A tourist watches the sun rise outside a church on the top of Mount Moses, South Sinai, Egypt. EPA
    A tourist watches the sun rise outside a church on the top of Mount Moses, South Sinai, Egypt. EPA
  • Camels belonging to Sinai bedouins wait along the footpath leading down from atop Mount Catherine, above the 6th-century Greek Orthodox Christian monastery of Saint Catherine. AFP
    Camels belonging to Sinai bedouins wait along the footpath leading down from atop Mount Catherine, above the 6th-century Greek Orthodox Christian monastery of Saint Catherine. AFP
  • Iranian dancer Rana Gorgani performs during persian traditional Sufi Dance at the Carthage acropolium in Tunis, Tunisia. EPA
    Iranian dancer Rana Gorgani performs during persian traditional Sufi Dance at the Carthage acropolium in Tunis, Tunisia. EPA
  • Syrians raise opposition flags bearing the emblem of the Syrian civil defence force (also known as the White Helmets) during a gathering in Anjara in the western countryside of Aleppo province commemorating injured members. AFP
    Syrians raise opposition flags bearing the emblem of the Syrian civil defence force (also known as the White Helmets) during a gathering in Anjara in the western countryside of Aleppo province commemorating injured members. AFP
  • An Iraqi man walks with his son through the Friday market which sells secondhand items of all types in the shrine city of Najaf. AFP
    An Iraqi man walks with his son through the Friday market which sells secondhand items of all types in the shrine city of Najaf. AFP
  • A Palestinian youth runs past a rolling burning tyre during clashes with Israeli forces following a demonstration after the weekly Friday prayers, in the centre of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. AFP
    A Palestinian youth runs past a rolling burning tyre during clashes with Israeli forces following a demonstration after the weekly Friday prayers, in the centre of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. AFP
  • A Palestinian protester stands by his national flag during a demonstration near the border with Israel, east of Gaza City. AFP
    A Palestinian protester stands by his national flag during a demonstration near the border with Israel, east of Gaza City. AFP
  • Barriers block the road leading to Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul. Saudi Arabia claims Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in a "fistfight", finally admitting that the writer had been slain at its diplomatic post. AP
    Barriers block the road leading to Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul. Saudi Arabia claims Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in a "fistfight", finally admitting that the writer had been slain at its diplomatic post. AP

The Middle East framed - regional photography for October 20, 2018

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October 20, 2018

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