• Three roadside bombs laid by Islamic State group militants explode in a western Mosul neighbourhood, killing one of the Iraqi engineers attempting to diffuse the devices. Khalid Mohammed / AP Photo
    Three roadside bombs laid by Islamic State group militants explode in a western Mosul neighbourhood, killing one of the Iraqi engineers attempting to diffuse the devices. Khalid Mohammed / AP Photo
  • A displaced Iraqi with his son prepares to get on a truck to be carried to a safe place, as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq. Suhaib Salem / Reuters
    A displaced Iraqi with his son prepares to get on a truck to be carried to a safe place, as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq. Suhaib Salem / Reuters
  • Birds fly at sunset over the rebel-held town of Arbin in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus. Amer Almohibany / AFP
    Birds fly at sunset over the rebel-held town of Arbin in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus. Amer Almohibany / AFP
  • Free Syrian Army fighters play soccer in the northern Syrian town of al-Rai, Syria. Khalil Ashawi / Reuters
    Free Syrian Army fighters play soccer in the northern Syrian town of al-Rai, Syria. Khalil Ashawi / Reuters
  • A Palestinian boy puts his hand out of a bus window as he waits with his family to cross into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing after it was opened by Egyptian authorities for humanitarian cases, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters
    A Palestinian boy puts his hand out of a bus window as he waits with his family to cross into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing after it was opened by Egyptian authorities for humanitarian cases, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters
  • Palestinian school children fly kites in a show of solidarity with the Japanese people during an event organised by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) marking the sixth anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that left more than 18,500 people dead or missing, in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. Said Khatib / AFP
    Palestinian school children fly kites in a show of solidarity with the Japanese people during an event organised by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) marking the sixth anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that left more than 18,500 people dead or missing, in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. Said Khatib / AFP
  • A mother reacts as her daughter Ranmea is treated for possible exposure to chemical weapons agents in a hospital west of Erbil in Mosul, Iraq. Azad Lashkari / Reuters
    A mother reacts as her daughter Ranmea is treated for possible exposure to chemical weapons agents in a hospital west of Erbil in Mosul, Iraq. Azad Lashkari / Reuters
  • People walk at the corniche al-Manara in Beirut, Lebanon. Wael Hamzeh / EPA
    People walk at the corniche al-Manara in Beirut, Lebanon. Wael Hamzeh / EPA
  • Pakistani security personnel check Afghan nationals as they prepare to leave to Afghanistan. Muhammad Sajjad / AP Photo
    Pakistani security personnel check Afghan nationals as they prepare to leave to Afghanistan. Muhammad Sajjad / AP Photo

Region in focus: March 8, 2017

James O’Hara

March 08, 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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