• Dark clouds hover over a cargo ship as it navigates the Mediterranean Sea along the Beirut coastline, Lebanon. AP Photo
    Dark clouds hover over a cargo ship as it navigates the Mediterranean Sea along the Beirut coastline, Lebanon. AP Photo
  • Members of the Libyan security forces loyal to Libyan Strongman Khalifa Haftar man turrets mounted in the back of pickup trucks as they remain on guard duty during the 2018 edition of the Benghazi International Forum and Exhibition of Oil & Gas, in the eastern Libyan city. AFP
    Members of the Libyan security forces loyal to Libyan Strongman Khalifa Haftar man turrets mounted in the back of pickup trucks as they remain on guard duty during the 2018 edition of the Benghazi International Forum and Exhibition of Oil & Gas, in the eastern Libyan city. AFP
  • Palestinian children are seen in a poor neighbourhood in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. The US nonprofit think-tank RAND corporation estimates that 97 percent of drinking water in the Gaza Strip is not drinkable by any recognised international standard, and that more than a quarter of illnesses and over 12 per cent of child deaths in the past four years were due to water pollution. AFP
    Palestinian children are seen in a poor neighbourhood in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. The US nonprofit think-tank RAND corporation estimates that 97 percent of drinking water in the Gaza Strip is not drinkable by any recognised international standard, and that more than a quarter of illnesses and over 12 per cent of child deaths in the past four years were due to water pollution. AFP
  • Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Adel Abdul Mahdi speaks to parliament as he announces his new cabinet at parliament headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. Reuters
    Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Adel Abdul Mahdi speaks to parliament as he announces his new cabinet at parliament headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. Reuters
  • Buildings during a sandstorm in Cairo, Egypt. Reuters
    Buildings during a sandstorm in Cairo, Egypt. Reuters
  • The rocket-hit Al-Azamiyah neighbourhood of Syria's second city of Aleppo, where shelling took place the night before from the demilitarised area outside the city. AFP
    The rocket-hit Al-Azamiyah neighbourhood of Syria's second city of Aleppo, where shelling took place the night before from the demilitarised area outside the city. AFP
  • A Turkish soldier is seen behind the glass of his cubicle covered in rain droplets as he guards the mausoleum of modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Ankara, Turkey. AP Photo
    A Turkish soldier is seen behind the glass of his cubicle covered in rain droplets as he guards the mausoleum of modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Ankara, Turkey. AP Photo

The Middle East Framed - regional photography for October 25, 2018

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October 25, 2018

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