• A Palestinian riot policeman looks on behind a shield as he, and his colleagues, blocks a street to Palestinian protesters who demonstrate against the new cooperation between the Palestinian police with the Israeli police to find three missing Israeli teenagers in the center of the West Bank town of Ramallah. Tomas Coex / AFP
    A Palestinian riot policeman looks on behind a shield as he, and his colleagues, blocks a street to Palestinian protesters who demonstrate against the new cooperation between the Palestinian police with the Israeli police to find three missing Israeli teenagers in the center of the West Bank town of Ramallah. Tomas Coex / AFP
  • A man walks along the corniche at the start of the summer season for the Mediterranean city in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. Spencer Platt / Getty Images
    A man walks along the corniche at the start of the summer season for the Mediterranean city in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. Spencer Platt / Getty Images
  • A vendor sells dates at a market ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Utaiqah neighbourhood, south of Riyadh. Faisal Al Nasser / Reuters
    A vendor sells dates at a market ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Utaiqah neighbourhood, south of Riyadh. Faisal Al Nasser / Reuters
  • Iraqi Turkmen forces patrol a checkpoint in the northern city of Tuz Khurmatu close to locations of jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters. Karim Sahib / AFP
    Iraqi Turkmen forces patrol a checkpoint in the northern city of Tuz Khurmatu close to locations of jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters. Karim Sahib / AFP
  • A rebel fighter walks through a hole in a wall on the frontline of Ramouseh, an area located beside Aleppo Artillery school. Hosam Katan / Reuters
    A rebel fighter walks through a hole in a wall on the frontline of Ramouseh, an area located beside Aleppo Artillery school. Hosam Katan / Reuters
  • Iraqi women wait outside of a temporary displacement camp for Iraqis caught-up in the fighting in and around the city of Mosul in Khazair, Iraq. Spencer Platt / Getty Images
    Iraqi women wait outside of a temporary displacement camp for Iraqis caught-up in the fighting in and around the city of Mosul in Khazair, Iraq. Spencer Platt / Getty Images
  • A woman fishes along the corniche at the start of the summer season for the Mediterranean city in downtown Beirut. Spencer Platt / Getty Images
    A woman fishes along the corniche at the start of the summer season for the Mediterranean city in downtown Beirut. Spencer Platt / Getty Images
  • Kurdish soldiers with the Peshmerga keep guard near the frontline with Sunni militants on the outskirts of Kirkuk, an oil-rich Iraqi city. Spencer Platt / Getty Images
    Kurdish soldiers with the Peshmerga keep guard near the frontline with Sunni militants on the outskirts of Kirkuk, an oil-rich Iraqi city. Spencer Platt / Getty Images
  • Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take part in a training session in the grounds of their camp in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Karim Sahib / AFP
    Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take part in a training session in the grounds of their camp in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Karim Sahib / AFP
  • Shi’ite volunteers from the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council take part in a training in Basra, southeast of Baghdad. Essam Al-Sudani / Reuters
    Shi’ite volunteers from the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council take part in a training in Basra, southeast of Baghdad. Essam Al-Sudani / Reuters
  • An Iranian employee of the anti-drug police walk past 50 tons of drugs seized in recent months burning in eastern Tehran to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Atta Kenare / AFP
    An Iranian employee of the anti-drug police walk past 50 tons of drugs seized in recent months burning in eastern Tehran to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Atta Kenare / AFP

Region in focus - June 27, 2014

Robert Mickelson

June 27, 2014

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

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