Photos Of The Week (March 13-19, 2023)

Girls attend class at a school in Zabul, Afghanistan.

Boys play under a water tap in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

An elderly man smokes a cigarette as he waits to fill up jugs of water in Chasiv Yar near the front line in eastern Ukraine.

A woman walks in a street of the old town of Tbilisi, Georgia.

Relatives and other guests attend the funeral of Pakistani teenager Azan Afridi, one of the victims of a boat wreck off the coast of Italy, in Peshawar.

Jewish people leave pebbles with messages during a ceremony in Skopje commemorating the 80th anniversary of the deportation of 7,144 Macedonian Jews to the Treblinka Nazi German concentration camp in March 1943. 

Security personnel and supporters escort a vehicle carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in Lahore during an election campaign rally for Punjab's provincial assembly to be held next month. 

A pedestrian walks past the Krutitskoye podvorye ecclesiastical residence in central Moscow.

This photograph taken on March 13 shows a blackboard reading "February 23 Class Work" in the classroom of a school destroyed by shelling in the village of Prudyanka in Ukraine's Kharkiv region.

People walk in Red Square past St. Basil's Cathedral (left), Lenin's Mausoleum (center), the Spasskaya Tower, and the Kremlin Wall (right) after sunset in Moscow.

Police escort health workers as they administer a polio vaccine to a child in Karachi, Pakistan.

Black crows are silhouetted against the sky as they return from the surrounding fields inside the city of Bucharest.

A woman touches a photo of her deceased son at the Memory Wall of Fallen Defenders of Ukraine during a ceremony marking Volunteer Day in Kyiv on March 14.

Supporters of the Conservative Movement and the pro-Russian platform Alt-Info rip an EU flag during a rally in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi.

A woman holds a candle and a portrait of her husband, who was captured during the siege of the port city of Mariupol, during a rally in tribute to defenders of Ukraine as part of Volunteer Day, in Kyiv on March 14.

An Iranian girl without a head scarf jumps over a fire during a traditional fire feast called Charshanbeh Suri in Tehran.

Supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan started a fire to block the road during clashes with police ahead of Khan's possible arrest outside his home, in Lahore on March 14.

A member of the Union of Journalists breaks pencils during a protest outside the parliament during a session about controversial amendments to the criminal code that would make defamation a crime punishable with stiff fines, in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka on March 14.

A member of the Hungarian military band plays in front of the parliament building in Budapest.

Women walk in an underpass in central Kyiv.

An elderly woman stands near a burning building following shelling in Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region.

A view shows colored pencils made by the Krasin Pencil Factory in the rural town of Shilovo, Ryazan region, Russia.

Curtains blow in an apartment damaged by shelling at the scene of the heaviest battles with Russian troops in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on March 15.

A Ukrainian soldier feeds stray dogs at a local market in the town of Orekhovo, Ukraine.

A bullet-riddled advertising poster is seen in a shop window in the town of Orekhovo, Ukraine.

A woman lights a candle during a commemorative rally for people killed a year ago inside building of the Mariupol's Drama Theater by a Russian air strike, in front of the Opera Theater in Kyiv on March 16.

A Ukrainian soldier of the Paratroopers' 80th brigade watches his surroundings at a frontline position near Bakhmut, Donetsk region.

A boy flies a kite in a field in the Fayzabad district of Badakhshan Province.

Customers arrive to eat at the Banowan-e-Afghan restaurant, which employs female staff, in Kabul.