Photos Of The Week (October 9-15, 2023)

A Muslim prays for the safety of the Palestinian people during Friday Prayers at the Bajrakli Mosque in Belgrade on October 13.

Cricket fans paint their bodies in the Indian and Pakistani national flag colors ahead of the match between India and Pakistan in the Cricket World Cup, in Ahmedabad, India.

A Kyrgyz soldier takes part in joint military drills for the Collective Security Treaty Organization at a training ground in Balykchi, some 200 kilometers from Bishkek. 

Afghan men carry a tent intended for temporary accommodation after the recent earthquakes in the district of Zindah Jan in Herat Province. 

A view of laundry hanging on clotheslines at an abandoned residential area in Stepanakert, (known in Azeri as Xankendi), the former de facto capital of Nagorno-Karabakh. 

Civilians undergo military training organized by the Armenian military school POGA on a street in Yerevan.

An Afghan youth holds his cat as he sits next to his destroyed home following a series of earthquakes in Herat Province. 

A Ukrainian soldier embraces his wife at a railway station in Kramatorsk before she boards a train heading to Kyiv. 

Birds feed on sunflower seeds near Pomaz in northern Hungary.

People react near a memorial for the victims of a deadly Russian rocket attack in the Ukrainian village of Hroza near Kharkiv.

People search for victims amid the rubble of destroyed houses following an earthquake in the Zindah Jan district of Herat Province, Afghanistan.

A woman lays flowers in memory of victims of the surprise attack from Gaza in front of the Israeli Embassy in Moscow.

Family members leave flowers near a memorial for victims of a deadly Russian rocket attack in the village of Hroza near Kharkiv.

A Romanian honor guard soldier salutes as First Rabbi of Romania Rafael Shaffer (center) pays his respects at a ceremony marking the Romanian National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust at the Holocaust Memorial in Bucharest.

An Afghan boy welds a frame at a workshop in the Fayzabad district of Badakhshan Province.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (center) and his Kyrgyz counterpart, Sadyr Japarov, attend a welcoming ceremony prior to talks in Bishkek.

A family photo can be seen among the ruins of a house destroyed in the recent earthquake in Chahak village in the Enjil district of Herat Province, Afghanistan.

Soldiers from the Volat Battalion of the Belarusian Kastus-Kalynovskiy volunteer regiment plant flags on Independence Square in Kyiv, each of which symbolizes a comrade who died defending Ukraine.

Varvara, 9, pets Chelsea, a specially trained canine therapy animal, in Kyiv.

An Afghan woman with children ride a donkey in the Kishim district of Badakhshan Province.