The best photography from around the region this week: December 13, 2012

Egyptians walk past a line of tanks stationed outside the presidential palace. Marco Longari / AFP

Free Syrian Army fighters cover two dead bodies they found between rubble during heavy clashes with government forces in Aleppo. Narciso Contreras / AP Photo

A boy leans against a newly built barrier in front of soldiers standing guard outside the Egyptian presidential palace in Cairo. Asmaa Waguih / Reuters

An Egyptian in Cairo protester carries a poster with a picture of president Mohammed Morsi and Arabic script that reads: Wanted for justice, escaped from the Natroun valley prison in January 29, 2011, Reward, a box of oil and two eggs. Nasser Nasser / AP Photo

Lebanese Greek Orthodox clergymen carry the coffin of Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, Ignatius Hazim IV, during his funeral at the Saint Nicolas Church in Beirut, Lebanon. Bilal Hussein / AP Photo

An anti-Morsi protester walks past graffiti depicting two activists who died recently, at Tahrir Square in Cairo. Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters

A wheelchair-bound woman shouts political slogans outside the presidential palace area in Cairo. Gianluigi Guercia / AFP

Men heat a fire to boil water by their tent at a refugee camp near the Turkish border in Azaz, Syria. Manu Brabo / AP Photo

Afghanistan border police march during an exercise at a police academy outside Herat. Aref Karimi / AFP

A Palestinian woman watches as supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) rally to mark the 45th anniversary of their organisation in the West Bank city of Nablus. Nasser Ishtayeh / AP Photo

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Photo editing and sequencing by photo editor James O’Hara