Week in Pictures: Syria salutes year of al-Assad fall, Sudan’s suffering

An Israeli worker arrests a Palestinian antheral during a subject cognition successful the municipality of Qalqilya, successful the occupied West Bank, December 4, 2025 [Zain Jaafar/AFP]

Residents assemble, carrying Syrian flags, during celebrations successful cardinal Hama commemorating the one-year day of a lightning violative that yet led to the downfall of the country's longtime ruler. [Omar Haj Kaour/AFP]

A antheral traverses a mud-laden thoroughfare carrying a hoe successful Aceh Tamiang, Aceh province, pursuing a devastating flash flood. Catastrophic floods and landslides person killed much than 900 radical crossed Indonesia's Sumatra Island, according to the country's catastrophe absorption agency, with increasing concerns that starvation could further summation the decease toll. [YT Hariono/AFP]

Civil Defence unit employment an excavator to hunt done rubble of a destroyed gathering successful the Bureij exile campy successful the cardinal Gaza Strip, looking for victims' remains. On December 6, Qatar and Egypt, acting arsenic guarantors of the Gaza ceasefire, urged the withdrawal of Israeli troops and called for an planetary stabilisation unit to beryllium deployed, describing these arsenic indispensable adjacent steps to afloat instrumentality the fragile agreement. [Eyad Baba/AFP]

People instrumentality portion successful a protestation against compulsory subject work successful Berlin, Germany. [Christian Mang/Reuters]

Awadeya, a Sudanese displaced pistillate who was held by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), carries a h2o instrumentality astatine a campy for displaced radical who fled from al-Fasher to Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan. [Mohamed Jamal/Reuters]

Relatives of victims hold for the accomplishment of Pope Leo XIV for a soundless supplication astatine the tract of the 2020 Beirut larboard explosion, arsenic portion of his apostolic journey, successful Beirut. [Andreas Splaro/AFP]

Members of the Rwandan information forces escort recently displaced radical from the Democratic Republic of the Congo arriving successful Bugarama, Rwanda, aft escaping aggravated shelling successful the neighboring Kamanyola region. Hundreds of civilians from eastbound DR Congo crossed the borderline into Rwanda pursuing dense bombardment that occurred conscionable 1 time aft Kinshasa and Rwanda ratified a bid agreement. [AFP]

A pistillate pushes a cart portion walking past a location destroyed by caller shelling successful the municipality of Horlivka (Gorlovka) successful the Donetsk region, a Russian-controlled country of Ukraine. Local Russian-installed authorities attributed the harm to a Ukrainian subject onslaught during the ongoing Russia-Ukraine subject conflict. [Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]

Crowds stitchery successful Nativity Square successful Bethlehem, successful the Israeli-occupied West Bank, for a Christmas histrion lighting ceremony. People converged adjacent the Church of the Nativity to witnesser the illumination of the Christmas histrion - the archetypal specified solemnisation since 2022. [Hazem Bader/AFP]