Afghan internally displaced children warm up around a fire outside their temporary mud house on the outskirts of Herat Province.
Russian firefighters battle a massive blaze the size of a soccer pitch that broke out overnight at the Mega Khimki shopping and entertainment center in Moscow's northern suburb of Khimki on December 9.
A woodcutter leads horses from a clearing, high up on Bulgaria's Stara Planina mountain near the town of Teteven.
A woman takes a selfie in front of an artwork by British street artist Banksy on a building destroyed by a Russian missile attack in Borodyanka, near Kyiv, on December 6.
Tamila Pyhyda cries during the exhumation of her husband, Serhii Pyhyda, who was killed by Russian forces in the recently retaken town of Vysokopillya, Ukraine, on December 5.
Anastasia, 82, lies in a hospital bed after she was wounded in overnight shelling in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on December 5.
A Pakistani boy selling secondhand shoes waits for customers in Peshawar.
A Ukrainian woman whose house has been destroyed sits in a tent for warmth in Borodyanka, near Kyiv.
Dancers perform during the premiere of a new contemporary ballet on the stage of the Kyrgyz Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Bishkek.
A building burns after shelling in Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region.
Youths play cricket amid foggy conditions in Peshawar in northern Pakistan.
Civilians take shelter in an underground passage during an air-strike alert in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
Two Iranian women share an umbrella as they stand on a square in Tehran.
A dog looks out of the window of a destroyed residential building in Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region.
People attend early morning Ukrainian Orthodox Church services at St. Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kyiv.
Fruit burns after Russian missiles hit an outdoor market in Donetsk on December 6.
A view of snow-covered trees at a park outside Tbilisi on December 6.
Cars light up a street in an area without electricity in downtown Kyiv on December 6.
Children play amid heavy smog conditions in Lahore, Pakistan, on December 7.
A European herring gull perches near an Art Nouveau casino on the seafront along the Black Sea. The casino, built in 1910, is now under renovation after being left abandoned for years.
A person walks toward the Buzludzha monument at Buzludzha peak, atop Stara Planina mountain in Bulgaria on December 9, at the end of its first restoration stage and before its official opening in 2023.
Zara, a British volunteer, plays with dogs and cats while delivering humanitarian aid to residents of Bakhmut, Donetsk region, on December 8.