Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 39th week of 2023 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.
Photos Of The Week (September 25-October 1, 2023)
- By RFE/RL
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Girls reach out to collect snacks during celebrations to mark the birth anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad in Karachi, Pakistan, on September 29.
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Locals gather at the scene of a suicide bomb blast in Mastung in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan region on September 29.
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Refugees fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh reach out to one another from the back of a truck after crossing the border near Kornidzor, Armenia.
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Brides and grooms participate in a mass marriage ceremony for 125 couples in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan.
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Kyiv's Princess Olha monument is dressed in a dummy bulletproof vest with a sign reading "She needs armor" to draw attention to the need for armor designed specifically for women amid Ukraine's war with Russia.
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A refugee from Azerbaijan's breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region holds a child while standing next to a car upon their arrival in the Armenian border village of Kornidzor on September 26.
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A destroyed tank is seen from the window of an armored vehicle at the front line near Klishchiyivka in eastern Ukraine.
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Darya Yassinskaya of Kazakhstan competes on the balance beam at the women's team artistic gymnastics event of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, on September 25.
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A newly recruited Taliban fighter demonstrates his strength at a graduation ceremony in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
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A refugee boy from the Nagorno-Karabakh region waits upon his arrival at a temporary accommodation center in the town of Goris, Armenia, on September 25.
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Cavid Ismayilov poses next to a missile in the ground in front of his house, which was destroyed during the 2020 war between Azerbaijan and Armenian separatists, in the town of Terter on September 24.
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A tit bird spreads its wings to land on the palm of a girl offering food in her hand, in Kyrgyzstan's Ala-Archa nature park outside Bishkek.
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Ukrainian soldiers ride on top of an armored personnel carrier in Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region.
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U.S. Army soldiers stand in formation next to a U.S. flag and a U.S. Army armored vehicle as they take part in the NATO Noble Blueprint 23 joint military exercise at the Novo Selo military ground in northwestern Bulgaria.
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Maryana Pochtar and her husband, Oleksiy, based near Kyiv, are the founders of the project Voodoo Orcs, which raises money to buy aid for the Ukrainian Army by selling dolls handmade from used Russian military uniforms depicting wounded Russian soldiers.
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Relatives mourn next to a portrait on a tombstone at a memorial cemetery in Baku.
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A woman kisses a photograph as Kosovo Serbs hold a vigil in the northern city of Mitrovica for those killed in a monastery siege after gunmen in armored vehicles stormed a village in an ethnic Serbian-majority region.
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An Afghan boy harvests cotton in a field in the Daman district of Kandahar Province.
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A woman carries a dog while walking past a house heavily damaged by recent shelling in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine.
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A girl touches a photograph of a relative on the Memory Wall of Fallen Defenders of Ukraine in Kyiv.
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Afghan men use a boat to cross the Kokcha River on the outskirts of Fayzabad, Badakhshan Province.
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A man carries belongings inside a house heavily damaged by recent shelling in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine.
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Young cadets and schoolgirls dance to mark a swear-in ceremony at a monument to legendary Prince Volodymyr one of the symbols of the Ukrainian capital in Kyiv.
