Photos Of The Week #3
Afghan border police carry the coffin of an Afghan victim killed on Ukrainian Airlines flight PS752, which crashed near Tehran, at Islam Qala on the outskirts of Herat near the border between Afghanistan and Iran on January 17. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
A boy cries after government air strikes in the town of Ariha, in Syria's Idlib Province. (AP/Ghaith Alsayed)
Vendors carry away salvaged merchandise from the burned ruins of a market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Waiting for a train at a station in Lahore, Pakistan. (AP/K.M. Chaudary)
Iraqi demonstrators carry cartridges, which release colored smoke, at a festival outside the Kufa University in the holy shrine city of Najaf, Iraq. (AFP/Haidar Hamdani)
People walk during a snowfall in Neelum Valeey in Pakistani-administered Kashmir. (epa-EFE/Amiruddin Mughal)
An internally displaced family warm themselves around a wood-burning stove at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan. Avalanches, flooding, and harsh winter weather have killed more than 130 people across Pakistan and Afghanistan in recent days, leaving others stranded by heavy snowfall. (AFP/Hoshang Hashimi)
A Kosovar Albanian man stands at the memorial dedicated to the victims of the Racak massacre. In 1999, 45 Albanian civilians were killed by Serb forces in the village of Racak. The massacre, one of the bloodiest that occurred in the Kosovo crisis, led to a NATO-led air campaign that ousted Serbian security forces from Kosovo. (AFP/Armend Nimani)
An inmate meets with a loved one on the Open Doors Day marking the New Year and Christmas season at a high-security penal colony in Omsk, Russia. (Reuters/Alexey Malgavko)
An Afghan balloon vendor looks for customers on a hilltop in Kabul. (epa-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)
A man rides a horse-drawn cart amid dense fog on a cold morning along a highway in Lahore, Pakistan. (Reuters/Mohsin Raza)
Local men wearing costumes made of hay and reeds march during the celebration of the winter holiday Malanka in the village of Krasnoilsk in western Ukraine. During two days of celebration, locals, young and old, wear traditional masks and carnival costumes and stroll from house to house singing carols, wishing households good luck, while at the same time playing pranks or performing short plays. (epa-EFE/Markiian Lyseiko)
People watch as fireworks explode over the Saint Sava Church to mark the Orthodox Christian New Year in Belgrade, Serbia, on January 14. (AFP/Andrej Isakovic)
An Afghan child standing in the snow poses for a photograph at an Internal Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in downtown Kabul. (epa-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)
A Lebanese youth runs with a national flag as smoke billows from burning tires during a demonstration on the outskirts of Beirut on January 14. (AFP/Joseph Eid)
Members of the Imperial Russian Ballet take part in a festive procession to mark New Year's Eve according to the Julian calendar in the Belarusian village of David-Horodok on January 13. (Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko)
A Ukrainian emergency worker attends the scene after a hot-water pipe burst at a shopping mall in central Kyiv on January 13. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)
Afghan National Army commandos attend their graduation ceremony on January 13 after a 3 1/2-month training program at the Commando Training Center on the outskirts of Kabul. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
A Shi'ite Muslim girl holds a poster of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani as she takes part in an anti-U.S. protest in Lahore, Pakistan, against his assassination in Iraq by a U.S. drone on January 3. (AFP/Arif Ali)
Indian devotees walk along the shore of the Bay of Bengal during the annual Ganga Sagar Mela pilgrimage on Sagar Island. (epa-EFE/Piyal Adhikary)