Two men ride their motorbike past a billboard of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in downtown Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
March 13 – 19, 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.
Relatives mourn while the body of Gen. Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Defense Council and a senior adviser to the Supreme Leader who was killed in a strike, is being buried at the courtyard of the Imamzadeh Saleh shrine in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)People clean debris from their apartment in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 15, 2026, damaged when a nearby police station was hit in a U.S.-Israeli strike on Friday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)Israeli security forces inspect an apartment struck by an Iranian missile that killed two people in Ramat Gan, Israel, Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)Israeli soldiers take photographs next to a fragment of a missile fired from Iran, and intercepted by Israeli defense system, embedded in an open field in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)A bride and her family in the midst of a wedding photo session take cover in a bomb shelter after an alert from Israel’s Home Front Command warned of missiles fired from Iran toward central Israel, in Ramat Gan, Israel, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)Women take part in a family gathering to break their fast with an Iftar meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the village of Gulp, Iraq, Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)A member of the armed wing of the Kurdish-Iranian opposition group Organization of Iranian Kurdistan Struggle, known as Khabat, stands in front of a shrapnel pockmarked wall that allegedly was damaged in strike by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq the previous week at a military base on the outskirts of Irbil, Iraq, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)Taliban security personnel guard people carrying the remains of victims of a Monday airstrike on a drug rehabilitation hospital, ahead of burial in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai)A Middle East Airlines plane takes off from Rafik Hariri International Airport as smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)Family members in a damaged car flee the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit an apartment building in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Friday, March 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)Plumes of smoke rise from an oil facility in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)People walk down a street during a blackout in Havana, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)People take selfie photos along the Shanghai Bund as the skyline of Pudong is seen across the Huangpu River during rainy weather in Shanghai, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)A boy pushes a bicycle carrying jugs of water through a sandstorm in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)Elena Aragón Hernández, from left, Gladys Sánchez Garnica and Mayra Rosales Santiago help each other as they distill mezcal in San Pedro Totolapam, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Claudia Rosel)Homebound travelers scramble to board a train at Kamalapur Railway Station, joining the massive annual exodus to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)A statue of “Cristo de la Paz” stands on the border crossing between Chile and Peru, as an excavator digs up dirt to install barriers to deter irregular migration, in Chacalluta, Arica province, Chile, Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)An aerial view shows the Haigat al-Abd mountain pass, the sole humanitarian artery connecting the city of Taiz to the interim capital, Aden, and the outside world, Friday, March 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik)President Donald Trump walks to board Air Force One at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Wednesday, March 18, 2026, after attending the casualty return for the six crew members of an Air Force refueling aircraft who died when their plane crashed in western Iraq while supporting operations against Iran. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)Muslims attend the last Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan in Dakar, Senegal, Friday, March 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)Michael B. Jordan, winner of the award for actor in a leading role for “Sinners,” poses in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, March 15, 2026, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)A jogger runs past as a man sunbathes at Crissy Field in San Francisco, Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)Carlos Alcaraz, of Spain, returns a shot against Daniil Medvedev, of Russia, during a semifinal match at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament, Saturday, March 14, 2026, in Indian Wells, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)Duke’s Cameron Boozer (12) and Nikolas Khamenia (14) battle for the ball with Siena’s Riley Mulvey (55), Brendan Coyle (21) and Gavin Doty (4) during the first half in the first round of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Thursday, March 19, 2026, in Greenville, S.C. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)Venezuela enters the field at the start of the championship game of the World Baseball Classic against the United States, Tuesday, March 17, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)A cargo ship transits the Panama Canal in Panama City, Thursday, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)A U.S. Army honor guard member stands vigil at dawn at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., ahead of the 100th anniversary of a continuous honor guard presence at the tomb, celebrated March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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