Photos Of The Week (September 19-25, 2022)

Russian police officers detain men during a rally in Moscow after opposition activists called for street protests against the mobilization of reservists ordered by President Vladimir Putin on September 21.

The Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster with Soyuz MS-22 space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station blasts off at the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 21.

Afghan children work at a brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul. 

Iranians wave the national flag as they take part in a state-sponsored rally in Tehran on September 23 aimed at countering weeks of anti-government protests. 

A destroyed and abandoned car lies in a field of rotting sunflowers in war-torn Ukraine. 

A billboard advertises contracts with the Russian Army in St. Petersburg with the image of a serviceman and a slogan reading: "Serving Russia is a real job." 

A woman collects firewood from a destroyed school where occupying Russian forces had been based in the recently retaken Ukrainian city of Izyum. 

A Kyrgyz soldier patrols near a damaged mosque in the village of Maksat near the border with Tajikistan. 

Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev (right) and Dmitry Petelin (center) with NASA astronaut Frank Rubio wave from inside a bus prior to boarding a Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft ahead of their mission to the International Space Station. 

Boys ride scooters near a statue of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, in the city of Baikonur, near the well-known Russian- leased cosmodrome of the same name. 

A flood-affected Pakistani woman sits with her children inside a temporary tent in a makeshift camp at Sohbatpur in the Jaffarabad district of Balochistan Province.

A Ukrainian soldier looks out from a Bradley Fighting Vehicle near the town of Izyum, recently liberated by Ukrainian soldiers, in the Kharkiv region.

Unidentified graves are exhumed in Izyum, as Ukrainian troops discover mass burial sites in the areas they have newly retaken from Russia.

A Taliban fighter does a security inspection on September 19 of the ceremonial hall at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul that will host an announcement of the release from a U.S. prison of Bashir Noorzai, a notorious drug lord being swapped for kidnapped American contractor Mark Frerichs.

A Kyrgyz medic examines a refugee at a temporary camp on September 19 in Kyzyl-Bel village, southeast of Bishkek, where locals displaced by the border conflict with Tajikistan have fled.

A demonstrator in Tehran joins a wave of nationwide outrage that has spilled into the streets of Iran following the death in custody of a Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the Islamic Republic's morality police.  

A mural of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic is vandalized with paint in Belgrade.

Men remove debris from a building destroyed by recent shelling in the city of Kadiyivka in the Luhansk region of Ukraine.

An Ukrainian artilleryman works on a 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer in the Mykolayiv region.

Internally displaced people gather to receive free food near their makeshift camp in Pakistan's flood-hit Sindh Province.