• Two Kuwaitis watch the sunset at the Sulaibikhat area, north-east of Kuwait City, Kuwait. Raed Qutena / EPA
    Two Kuwaitis watch the sunset at the Sulaibikhat area, north-east of Kuwait City, Kuwait. Raed Qutena / EPA
  • A Kuwaiti military helicopter takes part in a live ammunition military exercise at Udaira military range, 140 km North of Kuwait City. Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP
    A Kuwaiti military helicopter takes part in a live ammunition military exercise at Udaira military range, 140 km North of Kuwait City. Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP
  • A Palestinian boy waits to have his hair cut in a Palestinian refugee's barber shop during a power outage in Al Shateaa refugee camp in Gaza City. Mohammed Saber / EPA
    A Palestinian boy waits to have his hair cut in a Palestinian refugee's barber shop during a power outage in Al Shateaa refugee camp in Gaza City. Mohammed Saber / EPA
  • Syrian boys sell balloons along the corniche in the port city of Sidon, southern Lebanon. Ali Hashisho / Reuters
    Syrian boys sell balloons along the corniche in the port city of Sidon, southern Lebanon. Ali Hashisho / Reuters
  • Iranians wearing glow stick glasses attend a concert of Iranian singer Mohammad Alizadeh (unseen) during the 32rd Fajr International Music Festival at the Milad Tower hall in Tehran, Iran. Abedin Taherkenreh / EPA
    Iranians wearing glow stick glasses attend a concert of Iranian singer Mohammad Alizadeh (unseen) during the 32rd Fajr International Music Festival at the Milad Tower hall in Tehran, Iran. Abedin Taherkenreh / EPA
  • A Palestinian boy, on his bicycle, casts a shadow in the street during a power outage in Al Shateaa refugee camp in Gaza City. Mohammed Saber / EPA
    A Palestinian boy, on his bicycle, casts a shadow in the street during a power outage in Al Shateaa refugee camp in Gaza City. Mohammed Saber / EPA
  • Members of the Saraya al-Salam (Peace Brigades), a group formed by Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, grieve in a procession alongside a coffin during the funeral a fighter who was killed the day before in the northern city of Samarra during an attack by the Islamic State group (IS), in the southern city of Basra. Haidar Mohammed Ali / AFP
    Members of the Saraya al-Salam (Peace Brigades), a group formed by Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, grieve in a procession alongside a coffin during the funeral a fighter who was killed the day before in the northern city of Samarra during an attack by the Islamic State group (IS), in the southern city of Basra. Haidar Mohammed Ali / AFP
  • A Palestinian family warm themselves with a fire inside their makeshift home, during a power cut in a poor neighborhood in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. Khalil Hamra / AP Photo
    A Palestinian family warm themselves with a fire inside their makeshift home, during a power cut in a poor neighborhood in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. Khalil Hamra / AP Photo
  • A Palestinian protester takes part in a protest following the funeral of Palestinian youth Qusai Al-Amour, who Israeli and Palestinian officials said was shot dead by Israeli border police during a clash with protesters on Monday, in the West Bank village of Tuqu near Bethlehem. Mussa Qawasma / Reuters
    A Palestinian protester takes part in a protest following the funeral of Palestinian youth Qusai Al-Amour, who Israeli and Palestinian officials said was shot dead by Israeli border police during a clash with protesters on Monday, in the West Bank village of Tuqu near Bethlehem. Mussa Qawasma / Reuters
  • Girls write on notebooks in the rebel held besieged Douma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
    Girls write on notebooks in the rebel held besieged Douma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
  • Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) are seen during an operation to clear the al-Andalus district of Islamic State militants, in Mosul, Iraq. Muhammad Hamed / Reuters
    Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) are seen during an operation to clear the al-Andalus district of Islamic State militants, in Mosul, Iraq. Muhammad Hamed / Reuters

Region in focus: January 18, 2017

Fatima Al Marzouqi

January 18, 2017

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The best images from the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.

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