Photos Of The Week #1

Afghan men sell oranges on the outskirts of Jalalabad. (epa-EFE/Ghulamullah Habibi)

Syrians play a game of football organized by local activists in a muddy field in a camp for the internally displaced in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib. (AFP/Abdulaziz Ketaz)

Boats are pulled ashore as smoke and wildfires rage behind Lake Conjola, Australia. Thousands of tourists fled Australia's wildfire-ravaged eastern coast ahead of worsening conditions as the military started to evacuate people trapped on the shore further south. The fires have killed at least 24 people and destroyed more than 1,200 homes. (AP/Robert Oerlemans)

A picture published by Iraqi authorities shows a destroyed vehicle on fire following a U.S. air strike on the road to Baghdad's international airport, in which top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed. (AFP)

Men play chess, lit by the setting sun, while others watch in a park in Bucharest, Romania. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)

A light show is projected on the National Museum building as part of official New Year's celebrations in Prague. New Year's fireworks, which were traditionally held on the first evening of the new year in the Czech capital, were perceived as unsuitable for young children, senior citizens, and animals. (epa-EFE/Martin Divisek)

A woman prays at a memorial cross installed outside the Cathedral of the Holy Ascension of Christ for the victims of the December 31, 2018, explosion in a 10-story apartment building in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk. Thirty-nine people were killed. Authorities said it was a natural-gas explosion, but a recent report by Russian investigative journalists believe the blast was terrorism. (TASS/Vladimir Smirnov)

Religious students at the Jamia Binoria Aalamia institute take part in biannual exams in Karachi, Pakistan. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber) 

Iraq paramilitaries and their supporters react after tear gas is fired upon them outside the U.S. Embassy in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on January 1. (AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

A young girl wearing a Santa Claus hat holds a balloon out of the window of a car in northern Syria's Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli as residents get ready to celebrate the New Year. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

A man covers himself with a shawl as protection from cold weather as he walks amid dense fog in Peshawar, Pakistan. (Reuters/Fayaz Aziz)

A helicopter fights a bushfire near Bairnsdale in Victoria's East Gippsland region in Australia. (AFP)

Clowns perform near a seasonally decorated Red Square in Moscow. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)