Rebels battle Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi's forces as the West imposes no-fly zone.
Photos Of The Week -- March 19-26

1
Rebel fighters shout over a fire ignited to burn clothes of soldiers loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi along the Benghazi-Ajdabiyah road
Photo by Goran Tomasevic for Reuters
Photo by Goran Tomasevic for Reuters

2
A man walks with his dog at a destroyed residential area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, nearly two weeks after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami
Photo by Issei Kato for Reuters
Photo by Issei Kato for Reuters

3
Afghan President Hamid Karzai hits the school gong at a ceremony to mark the start of the school year at a high school in Kabul
Photo by Omar Sobhani for Reuters.
Photo by Omar Sobhani for Reuters.

4
A Libyan rebel guards worshipers performing the Friday Noon Prayer in Benghazi
Photo by Patrick Baz for AFP
Photo by Patrick Baz for AFP

5
Tombs of soldiers who were killed during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) are reflected in a pool of water at Behesht Zahra cemetery, south of Tehran
Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl for Reuters
Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl for Reuters

6
The Chess Academy at Chisinau, Moldova

7
Men on horseback compete in goat dragging, a traditional Central Asian sport, outside the Tajik capital of Dushanbe
Photo by Nozim Kalandarov for Reuters
Photo by Nozim Kalandarov for Reuters

8
Tokiko Abe, who lost her husband in the March 11 tsunami, waits for his coffin to arrive at a temporary mass grave where victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami were buried
Photo by Yuriko Nakao for Reuters
Photo by Yuriko Nakao for Reuters

9
Pakistani Christian minority leader J. Salik sprinkles ash over his body to protest against US pastor Terry Jones, in Islamabad
Photo by Aamir Qureshi for AFP
Photo by Aamir Qureshi for AFP

10
A Canadian CF-18A fighter prepares to land at the Birgi NATO air base in Trapani on the southern Italian island of Sicily
Photo by Alessandro Bianchi for Reuters
Photo by Alessandro Bianchi for Reuters

11
Israelis run to take cover in a shelter during a Palestinian rocket attack on the southern Israeli city of Beersheva
Photo by Menahem Kahana for AFP
Photo by Menahem Kahana for AFP

12
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates fires the noon cannon at Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, Russia
Photo by Charles Dharapak for Reuters
Photo by Charles Dharapak for Reuters