Photos Of The Week (September 11-17, 2023)

European Forces (EUFOR) soldiers conduct an exercise to demonstrate EUFOR's capabilities on the ground and in the air at a base in Butmir, Sarajevo.

Ukrainian military medics cut the uniform of a wounded soldier from the 3rd Assault Brigade at a field hospital near Bakhmut.

An Afghan vendor sells bread on a roadside in Kabul.

Detained migrants sit on their knees with cuffed hands at their makeshift camp close to the Serbia-Hungary border, near the city of Subotica, Serbia.

A man carrying wall clocks for sale walks along closed currency exchange shops in Peshawar, Pakistan.

A boy runs amid a fumigation vapor cloud being sprayed to stem the spread of the dengue virus in Karachi, Pakistan.

Romanian football fans hold up banners that subsequently suspended play temporarily during a Euro 2024 qualifier match between Romania and Kosovo at National Arena in Bucharest on September 12. A section of Romanian fans held up a banner that read "Kosovo is Serbia," while some members of the home end chanted “Serbia, Serbia,” according to Reuters.

A giant mock bulletproof vest is placed on the monument to Princess Olga next to an exhibition of destroyed Russian military machinery in Kyiv. Unidentified people put the bulletproof vest on the statue with the inscription: "She needs armor." In March 2022, sandbags were placed around the monument in order to protect it from possible shelling.

A worker participates in the restoration work of the largest Jewish cemetery in Karachi, Pakistan.

Trucks are seen parked along a road near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Torkham. The Torkham border crossing was closed on September 6 following clashes between border forces of both countries.

Pakistanis watch the Asia Cup cricket match being played in Colombo, Sri Lanka, between Pakistan and India on a big screen at a shopping mall in Karachi.

Afghan workers process grapes into raisins in Kandahar. The Kandahar Chamber of Commerce says 10,000 tons of raisins worth $32 million were exported from Kandahar to Pakistan, India, and the U.A.E. last year.

Children in Izyum in Ukraine's Kharkiv region take part in a celebration marking the first anniversary of the recapturing of their town amid Russia's invasion on September 10.

A vendor sells meat at a shop in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Laborers who work on daily wages wait to get hired in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Afghan patients suffering from blood diseases get treatment at a hospital in Kabul. Patients gathered to protest a shortage of drugs at the central blood bank. The Taliban-controlled government claims that patient numbers are increasing but there is a lack of medicine for treatment. The patients are urging organizations like the World Health Organization, who have previously assisted them, to address this issue.

Pakistani security officials inspect the scene of an explosion that targeted a vehicle of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Peshawar. At least one Frontier Corps official was killed and nine others, including six Frontier Corps personnel, were injured.

Ukrainian soldiers pay tribute to their brother-in-arms Serhiy Yarmolenko, who was killed in a fight against Russian troops in the Donetsk region, at his funeral in Kyiv.

Blind Ukrainian soldier Ivan Soroka (center) surrounded by his wife, Vladislava Ryabets (left) and his mother-in-law during the second day of his wedding on the outskirt of Kyiv.

Ukrainian paramedics from the 3rd Assault Brigade move a wounded comrade to an evacuation ambulance near Bakhmut.

Muhammad Ismail, 40, sits with his family while they wait to cross the main Afghanistan-Pakistan border crossing, in Torkham, Pakistan.

A courier rides past a poster in Baku.

Captured Armenian arms are displayed at a memorial exhibition in Baku.

KYRGYZSTAN --- Kyrgyz women rally in front of the city court in Bishkek, 13 September 2023.