Russian strikes in Kyiv, a female militia march in Tehran, protests in Pristina and Alfie Hewett at the US Open – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
People leave an apartment building damaged by a Russian drone strike in Odesa, Ukraine. Photograph: Nina Liashonok/ReutersJim PowellFri 18 Sep 2026 14.23 EDTLast modified on Fri 18 Sep 2026 15.00 EDTShare
Gaza Strip
Displaced Palestinians shelter in a heavily damaged building in Gaza City. According to the territory’s health ministry, 1,369 Palestinians have been killed and 4,627 wounded since a fragile ceasefire took effect on 11 October 2025.Photograph: Jehad Alshrafi/APShare
Gaza Strip
Palestinian fishers depart from Gaza City’s damaged seaport. Benjamin Netanyahu said this week that he would seek new laws allowing Israel to strip citizenship from people who ‘smear’ Israeli soldiers, escalating the campaign against the Oscar-winning film-makers behind the documentary NAZA, who have faced threats from senior government and military officials and far-right groups gathering outside their families’ homes.Photograph: Jehad Alshrafi/APShare
Homesh, West Bank
A young Israeli settler carries a toy gun during the inauguration of a new synagogue. An Israeli soldier shot a Palestinian man this week, wounding him in the leg, as settlers confronted villagers by grazing livestock on Palestinian land in the town of Faqqua. The incident is the latest to raise questions over the Israeli government’s ability or willingness to curb violent settlers in the occupied West Bank, where attacks have continued to increase.Photograph: Ohad Zwigenberg/APShare
A sailor handles munitions on the flight deck of the USS George Washington. The US House of Representatives has voted for a third time to end the war in Iran, approving a resolution a few hours after a Congressional Budget Office report showed the conflict had cost at least $38bn and left the US stockpile of defensive missiles so depleted it could take five years to replenish.Photograph: Ed Ou/ReutersShare
Aden, Yemen
Displaced Yemenis rest at a temporary shelter after fleeing Houthi attacks in Al-Khawkhah and Mocha. Abandoning their homes and cramming into cars, thousands of Yemeni families have fled a lightning advance of rebel fighters along the Red Sea coastal plains. People have moved up the rugged hills towards the mountaintop city of Taiz as the war returned in dramatic form this month.Photograph: Abdulnasser Alseddik/APShare
Odesa, Ukraine
People leave an apartment building damaged by a Russian drone strike. The head of Nato has said an attack on a passenger train near Ukraine’s border with Poland would not deter Kyiv’s western backers. Mark Rutte said the strike showed how desperate Vladimir Putin had become. ‘He thinks that he can stop us from supporting Ukraine and that he can undermine our unity. He is wrong. Our answer is to increase support,’ he said.Photograph: Nina Liashonok/ReutersShare
Kyiv, Ukraine
A fire burns at a warehouse complex after debris from a Russian drone fell in the district of Sviatoshynskyi. Russian missiles and drones injured at least 19 people in Ukraine’s capital and the surrounding region, authorities said on Thursday. Kyiv’s military administration said more than 10 locations were hit and 33 sites damaged in the wider region.Photograph: Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty ImagesShare
Nairobi, Kenya
Supporters of the opposition Linda Mwananchi movement take part in a rally. Edwin Sifuna has emerged as the loudest threat to President William Ruto’s push for re-election in August 2027. Sifuna has built momentum by tapping into widespread anger over corruption and political violence.Photograph: Luis Tato/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Pristina, Kosovo
Kosovo Albanians take part in a rally to call for the acquittal of the former president Hashim Thaçi on the day he was sentenced at a trial in The Hague. Thaçi was jailed for 25 years for war crimes, including dozens of murders, committed as a senior commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army during the country’s war for independence from Serbia in the late 1990s.Photograph: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Pristina, Kosovo
Riot police stand guard as people protest outside the Eulex headquarters after Hashim Thaçi and three former guerrilla commanders were convicted of 96 murders, as well as torture, cruel treatment and arbitrary detention directed at political opponents and civilians.Photograph: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Santiago, Chile
Carabineros detain a woman during a march for the victims of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship marking the 53rd anniversary of the coup that brought him to power.Photograph: Javier Torres/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Frontignan, France
Police officers intervene as French fishers block access to an oil depot. Mediterranean fishers have launched an indefinite strike in the south of France to protest against the surging cost of marine diesel and a deterioration in their working conditions.Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Nu’man, Syria
A displaced man searches for recyclable materials at a rubbish dump. Impoverished people have to rely on scavenging through mountains of waste for plastic and metal to sell.Photograph: Bakr Alkasem/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Durban, South Africa
A woman waves goodbye to friends as asylum seekers and refugees board a bus for relocation to the Lindela repatriation centre in Gauteng. Documented refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and Rwanda have lived on the streets for about four months after fleeing communities where they say they faced hostility, threats and intimidation.Photograph: AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Grieving family members support a man who collapsed during the funerals of children killed in a fire and crush at a school in which at least 26 died.Photograph: Jospin Mwisha/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Alfie Hewett, of the UK, celebrates defeating Tokito Oda, of Japan, in the men’s wheelchair singles final at the 2026 US Open at Flushing Meadows.Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty ImagesShareExplore more on these topics
