Photos Of The Week (September 4-10, 2023)

Drivers sit beside their trucks carrying goods destined for Afghanistan as they wait for the opening of the border following clashes between security forces of Pakistan and Afghanistan, in Torkham, Pakistan, on September 7.

A recovering drug addict shows his work as he attends a graduation ceremony for vocational training in Kabul.

Shi'ite Muslims take part in a procession marking Chehlum in Lahore, Pakistan. 

People try to pull out a car submerged in the sea at the Arapia campsite near Tsarevo along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast.

A soldier of Ukraine's 3rd Separate Assault Brigade gives first aid to his wounded comrade near Bakhmut, the site of fierce battles with the Russian forces in the Donetsk region, Ukraine.

People exercise in Kyiv next to a monument to Italian poet Dante Alighieri, wrapped in sandbags to prevent it from being damaged by Russian air strikes.

Afghan boys play cricket in a field in Kabul. 

An aerial view shows what little remains of the devastated Ukrainian village of Opytne near Bakhmut, the site of fierce battles with invading Russian forces in the Donetsk region.

Cadets and schoolgirls attend a ceremony on the first day of school at a military educational institution in Kyiv on September 4. 

Afghan women and children are pictured on a military vehicle after being detained in Kabul by Taliban security personnel on charges of begging for alms. 

A grain storage shed is peppered with holes after a strike on Russian-held territory in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya region. 

People take pictures near the Opera Theater in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.

An Afghan currency dealer sits next to old bank notes at a local market in Kabul.

A Ukrainian soldier shouts to paramedics after a Russian rocket attack on a food market in the city center of Kostyantynivka, Ukraine.

Consequences of the Russian attack on the market in Kostyantynivka.

People take part in a satirical contest to mock a popular myth that labels Montenegrins as lazy people, in the village of Brezna, Pluzine, Montenegro. 

A man sits under the shade of a truck loaded with supplies bound for Afghanistan stranded at the Michni check post after the main Pakistan-Afghan border crossing closed following clashes in Torkham, Pakistan.

Pilgrims walk through the shrine of Shi'ite St. Abdulazim during the Arbaeen mourning ceremony in Shahr-e-Ray, south of Tehran. 

A view shows the newly opened Pykhtino station on the Solntsevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro.

A spent chest plate is seen with other damaged body armor at a Ukrainian border guard supply site in the Kyiv region.

The words to the Ukrainian national anthem can be seen written on the wall as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits a basement used reportedly to hold people captive as he tours the Yahidne school, which is being turned into a museum.

A Taliban official throws petrol before burning narcotics and illegal substances during a ceremony in which 29,385 kilograms of various narcotics were destroyed in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Five-time Olympic Champion Hungarian gymnast and Athlete of the Nation Agnes Keleti, 102,  is portrayed at her home in Budapest. Keleti, a Holocaust survivor and winner of 10 Olympic medals, is the oldest living Olympic champion in the world.  

 Afghan female students attend school in Kabul.