The best images of the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.
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Kuwaiti perform a traditional dance as part of celebrations in Kuwait city for the announcement that the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, was named a Humanitarian Leader by the United Nations. Yasser Al Yazzat / AFP -
General view of farms in northern Saudi Arabia. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Saudi Arabia, on Thursday to try to persuade officials from across the Mideast and Turkey to put aside longstanding rivalries to more vigorously pursue the Islamic State — and, in doing so, ward off a threat that has put the entire region at risk. Brendan Smialowski / AP Photo -
Shi’ite fighters from Mahdi Army rehearse their final tactics before advancing into Bo Hassan village in near Tikrit, northern Iraq, to fight Islamic State militants. Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters -
A rebel fighter makes improvised mortar shells inside a weapons factory in the southern countryside of Idlib. Khalil Ashawi / Reuters -
US Secretary of State John Kerry, back left, and Foreign Minister of Iraq Ibrahim al-Jaafari, center right, wait for a meeting in Baghdad. Brendan Smialowski / AP Photo -
A follower of the Shi’ite Houthi group holds the flags of the movement and Yemen while standing on the top of a lamp post during a civil disobedience campaign staged by the movement in Sanaa. Mohamed Al Sayaghi / Reuters -
A resident works to extinguish a fire at a site hit by what activists claim were at least five air strikes carried out by forces of Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad in Douma, eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters -
A man holds a child that survived from under rubble, after what activists claim was five air strikes by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad in Douma, eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters -
Residents react after what activists claim were five air strikes by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad in Douma, eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters -
A Palestinian girl walks past a pharmacy’s wall, which witnesses said was damaged during the Israeli offensive, in the east of Gaza City. An open-ended ceasefire between Israel and Hamas-led Gaza militants, mediated by Egypt, took effect on August 26 after a seven-week conflict. The writing on the wall reads ‘Al Sha’af Pharmacy’. Suhaib Salem / Reuters -
Palestinian graduates attend their graduation ceremony as they holds posters of of students, who were killed in the seven-week Israeli offensive and were supposed to be among graduates, at the University College of Applied Sciences in Gaza City. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters -
Followers of the Shi’ite Houthi sit in a makeshift tent at their protest camp in Sanaa. Tens of thousands of Houthis have spent weeks camping around Sanaa in protest at the government against which they have fought, on and off, for a decade in northwest Yemen. Khaled Abdullah / Reuters -
One of 24 defendants including Alaa Abdel-Fattah, a prominent activist, appears in the cage on charges they organized an unauthorized protest in November last year, while in a trial in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian prosecutors presented in court Wednesday a personal home video of Abdel-Fattah’s wife dancing as evidence against him in his retrial on charges of protesting and beating a police officer, prompting an outcry from his lawyers that the material was irrelevant and defamatory. Hamada Elrasam / AP Photo
Region In focus - September 12, 2014
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