Photos Of The Week -- March 10-16

Pakistanis burn a poster of George Washington during a demonstration in Quetta following the massacre of 16 Afghans allegedly by a U.S. soldier. (Reuters/Naseer Ahmed)

Israeli soldiers watch as a missile is launched from the Iron Dome defense system in the southern city of Beer Sheva during exchanges with militants in Gaza. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

An Egyptian protester holds a picture of Samira Ibrahim, who accused an army doctor of conducting forced "virginity tests" on female protesters, during a demonstration in solidarity with Ibrahim in Cairo. (AFP/Mohammed Hossam)

A Kurdish woman visits the grave of her relatives who were killed in a gas attack by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 1988 on the 24th anniversary of the attack at the memorial site for the victims in the Kurdish town of Halabja. (AFP/Safin Hamed)

An Afghan woman holds a photograph of her dead son on the outskirts of the city of Herat after a memorial service. (AFP/Aref Karimi)

Syrian refugees hide their faces as they arrive near the border between Syria and Turkey at Reyhanli in Antakya. (AFP)

Syrian children hide behind sandbags on the street in the central town of Rastan, near Homs. (AFP)

Zaher al-Hariri speaks to the media describing how his right hand was cut off by Syrian security forces after he went to a state hospital in Deraa. (Reuters/Ali Jarekji)

Rapeseed plants in full bloom and ready for harvest in the farms in Luoping, in China's southwestern Yunnan province. (AFP)

Belarusian Interior Ministry troops demonstrate their skills to visiting journalists in Minsk. (AFP/Viktor Drachev)

Members of the dance and music group Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats rehearse in an abandoned communist-era printing house in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)

A Ukrainian honor guard's face is covered by the Turkmen flag during an official welcoming ceremony for the Turkmen president in Kyiv. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)