A cleric leads a group of volunteers in prayer next to a police facility struck during the U.S.–Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Feb. 27 – March 5, 2026
This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Patrick Sison, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.
A worker helps install a billboard bearing a portrait of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed during the ongoing joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)A government supporter mourns during a gathering after state television officially announced the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)Rescue workers and residents search through the rubble in the aftermath of what Iranian officials said was an Israeli-U.S. strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News Agency via AP)Government supporters gather in mourning after state television officially announced the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)The sun sets behind a plume of smoke rising from a U.S.–Israeli military strike in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)President Donald Trump attends an event for the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex in Washington on Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men watch as Israeli security forces operate at the site where several people were killed in an Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh, Israel, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)Mourners take cover while air raid sirens warn of incoming missiles launched by Iran toward Israel during the funeral of Sarah Elimelech and her daughter, Ronit, who were killed in an Iranian missile attack, in Beit Shemesh, Israel, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)A firefighter sprays water on a building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)A man walks away after watching a black plume of smoke rising from a warehouse in the industrial area of Sharjah City, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 1, 2026, following reports of Iranian strikes in Dubai. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)Pigeons fly overhead as worshippers arrive at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for Friday prayers in Jerusalem’s Old City, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)Yazid Al-Zayan, 9, mourns during the funeral for his father, Khaled Al-Zayan, a Palestinian policeman, who was killed in an Israeli military strike, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Afghan Taliban soldiers look toward the Pakistani side, on the Afghan side of the Torkham border crossing with Pakistan in Torkham, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Wahidullah Kakar)Icelandic stallions play at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)Military delegates assemble before the opening session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Exposing himself to the danger of unexploded ordnance, a boy tries to climb on an unexploded Iranian projectile that landed in an open field in the outskirts of Qamishli, eastern Syria, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)A Ukrainian soldier of the 48th separate brigade launches a reconnaissance drone in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)Clemson guard Efrem Johnson (4) shoots against Louisville guard Mikel Brown Jr. (0) during the second half of an NCAA basketball game, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, in Clemson, S.C. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)Harry Styles performs during the Brit Awards 2026 in Manchester, England, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)A woman is smeared with colored powder during celebrations for the Holi festival in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)Demonstrators embrace as they march in reaction to the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Caroline Brehman)Demonstrators hold a banner with Iran’s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi as they gather in Rome, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)Surfers wait for waves on El Porto Beach as the crude oil tanker “Chios” has its cargo pumped into the Chevron Products Company refinery, one of California’s largest petroleum processing facilities, in El Segundo, Calif., on Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)A youth jumps into the sea during a blackout in Havana, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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