Photos Of The Week (December 19-25)
A man wearing a Santa Claus costume speaks to children at an aviation hangar during a Christmas event in Bucharest.
An Afghan tailor sews a burqa at his shop in Jalalabad.
An energy facility in Kyiv burns following a Russian drone attack.
A girl encounters a man dressed as St. Nicholas in Kherson, Ukraine.
Soldiers place a floral tribute on the grave of a soldier who was killed in a suicide blast in Miran Shah, a town of the North Waziristan district of Pakistan.
A woman sweeps up broken glass at a hospital damaged by recent shelling in Donetsk, Ukraine.
Сoncrete blocks previously used for building barricades are turned into Christmas decorations in central Kyiv.
A damaged apartment in the aftermath of Russian shelling in Kherson, Ukraine.
Laborers ride a donkey cart while making their way amid foggy weather in Lahore, Pakistan.
Protesters wave flags and light flares during an anti-government protest in Podgorica, Montenegro.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (left) hands out a state award to one of his country's soldiers who is defending the eastern frontline city of Bakhmut.
An Afghan horse rider competes during a Buzkashi tournament match in Kabul.
Male university students attend a class bifurcated by a curtain previously separating males and females at a university in Kandahar Province on December 21, the day the Taliban banned women from university education.
A Soviet Army veteran stands next to the tomb of late Soviet leader Joseph Stalin during a memorial ceremony to mark the 143rd anniversary of his birth at Red Square in Moscow on December 21.
Cars drive past Christmas and New Year decorations in downtown Tbilisi on December 20.
Romanians commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the 1989 anti-Communist revolution on December 21 during which more than 1,100 people were killed across the country during clashes between demonstrators and forces loyal to then-dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Afghan female students leave Kabul University on December 21.
A woman guides her herd of goats amid the morning fog in Peshawar, Pakistan, on December 22.
The Kyrgyz military changes the guard in the center of Bishkek on December 20.
Members of Pakistan's Christian minority attend a service ahead of Christmas in Lahore, Pakistan, on December 21.