The best images from the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.
Photo edit and sequencing by photo editor, James O'Hara
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Syrian police cadets display their skills during a graduation ceremony on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria. AFP -
A butcher sharpens his knife after killing a ram as part of Eid al-Adha celebrations in Egypt. Jon Gambrell / AP Photo -
Afghan women go to the main mosque to offer Eid-al-Adha prayers in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif in Balkh province, Afghanistan. Farshad Usyan / AFP -
An Egyptian Muslim pilgrim cries as he prays at sunrise on a rocky hill called the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Amr Nabil / AP Photo -
Muslim pilgrims circulate around the holy Kaaba located in the center of the Haram Sharif Great Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Ali Hassan / EPA -
Palestinian children play with plastic weapons during the second day of Eid al-Adha in Gaza City. Mohammed Abed / AFP -
Muslim pilgrims head to the 'Jamarat' ritual, the symbolic stoning of Satan, where they throw pebbles at pillars, in Mina near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Fayez Nureldine / AFP -
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, is surrounded by body guards as he arrives at a mosque inside the presidential palace to deliver his Eid al-Adha message, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Anja Niedringhaus / AP Photo -
A young girl with her face painted in the colors of the Syrian flag, attends a demonstration in a protest against foreign support for the rebel groups in Syria. Vadim Ghirda / AP Photo -
An Israeli soldier walks out from a tunnel reportedly discovered and seized near Kissufum, southern Israel, along the border with the Gaza Strip. Jim Hollander / EPA -
Friends and relatives mourn over the bodies of people that were reportedly killed in airstrikes by Syrian government force in a mosque in the northwestern village of Kansafra, Syria. Mezar Matar / AFP
The best photography from around the region this week: Oct 17, 2013
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