Photos Of The Week (October 16-22, 2023)

 An Iranian woman walks past a mural on Palestine Square in Tehran. 

Orphan boys attend classes at the Sheikh Zahid Orphanage School in Kandahar, Afghanistan. 

A Ukrainian soldier jumps out of a boat onto the bank of the Dnieper River at the front line near Kherson in southern Ukraine.

A boy cycles in a park in the Kosovar capital, Pristina. 

A Ukrainian woman in Kyiv mourns during the funeral of her grandson who was killed fighting Russian troops at the front. 

Afghan children study the Koran at an open-air madrasah, or Islamic school, in Kandahar Province. 

A woman cleans up debris inside a cathedral damaged by a Russian missile strike in Zaporizhzhya in southern Ukraine on October 18.

A family rides a bike in monsoon rains in Lahore, Pakistan.

An injured man is treated by military doctors at a stabilization point near the front line in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. 

An Afghan youth jumps on a trampoline at the Kart-e Sakhi cemetery in Kabul.

Plastic-covered mannequins bearing labels with fictitious names, ages, and jobs, lie on the ground during a protest in Bucharest against Romanian government health policies regarding cancer patients.

Relatives of Ukrainian prisoners of war and missing soldiers hold placards and flags depicting their portraits during a rally demanding their search and liberation on Independence Square in Kyiv.

People gather along the roadside to receive free food being distributed on the occasion of World Food Day in Lahore, Pakistan.

A burqa-clad Afghan woman looks at a dress in a shop in the Fayzabad district of Badakhshan Province.

People gather to attend a solidarity service for Israeli victims of the attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas at the Moscow Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow.

Ukrainian soldiers of the Donbas Battalion take part in training close to the front line in the eastern region of Donetsk.

An image rotated 180 degrees shows a person walking near St. Basil's Cathedral and the Moscow Kremlin reflected in a puddle on a rainy day in downtown Moscow.

Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty who was arrested on charges of failing to register as a "foreign agent," attends a hearing at the Sovetski court in Kazan, Russia.