Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's coverage area and beyond for the 35th week of 2017. For more photo galleries, see our Picture This archive.
Photos Of The Week #35
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Syrian refugees wait at the Oncupinar crossing gate, close to the town of Kilis, in south-central Turkey, before crossing into Syria for the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday. Turkish authorities allow Syrian refugees to visit their country for the festivities. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)
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Vendors wait for customers as they sale sacrificial animals ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival, in Quetta, Pakistan. Eid al-Adha is the holiest of the two Muslims holidays celebrated each year and marks the yearly Muslim hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, the holiest place in Islam. Muslims slaughter a sacrificial animal and split the meat into three parts -- one for the family, one for friends and relatives, and one for the poor and needy. (epa/Jamal Taraqai)
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Muslim worshippers arrive at the hajj terminal of the King Abdulaziz international airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Around 2.6 million Muslims are expected to attend this year's hajj pilgrimage. (epa/Mast Irham)
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People flee a flooded Houston neighborhood following Hurricane Harvey. A record 75 centimeters of rain has fallen in Houston, the fourth-largest city in the United States, since Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on August 25, bringing massive flooding. Harvey has been blamed for at least three confirmed deaths and tens of thousands of people have been driven from their homes. (AFP/Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Smoke rises from a car-bomb attack during fighting between the Iraqi Army and Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) against Islamic State militants in Al-Ayadiya, northwest of Tal Afar, Iraq. (Reuters/Thaier al-Sudani)
!["[Russian President Vladimir Putin] is trying to understand what went wrong. And he cannot, because if he accepts the idea that almost everything he knew was wrong, it would be a huge blow to his general worldview," says Russian analyst Vladislav Inozemtsev.](https://gdb.rferl.org/f3fa21c9-5015-440f-aae9-2b7598ad075c_cx0_cy6_cw99_w100_r1.jpg)
!["[Russian President Vladimir Putin] is trying to understand what went wrong. And he cannot, because if he accepts the idea that almost everything he knew was wrong, it would be a huge blow to his general worldview," says Russian analyst Vladislav Inozemtsev.](https://gdb.rferl.org/f3fa21c9-5015-440f-aae9-2b7598ad075c_cx0_cy6_cw99_w33_r1.jpg)