October 20, 2014
An explosion rocks the Syrian city of Kobani during a reported suicide car bomb attack by ISIS on a People’s Protection Unit (YPG) position in the city center of Kobani, as seen from Sanliurfa province. According to Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey is allowing Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross the Syrian border to fight ISIS in the Syrian city of Kobani while the United States has sent planes to drop weapons, ammunition, and medical supplies to Syrian Kurdish fighters around the besieged city.
October 20, 2014
A wounded Syrian receives treatment at a makeshift hospital following a reported regime air raid in the besieged rebel bastion, northeast of the Syrian capital Damascus. Closing in on Douma, a town of 200,000 residents, the army has seized control of Mleiha and Adra and has set its sights on Jobar and Ain Tarma, all towns to the east of the capital.
October 20, 2014
A woman accompanies schoolchildren after what activists said were airstrikes by forces of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.
October 19, 2014
Shiite Iraqi fighters, loyal to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, fire missiles from a launcher during clashes with ISIS fighters north of the Shiite shrine city of Karbala.
October 22, 2014
An activist throws a chair at a window at the Municipal Palace during a demonstration to demand information about the 43 missing students of the Ayotzinapa teachers’ training college in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. Authorities fear that the trainee teachers could have been massacred by police in league with gang members. The students went missing September 26 after clashing with police and masked men, and dozens of police have been arrested in connection with the case, which has sent shockwaves across Mexico.
October 23, 2014
Family members of Abdel Rahman Al-Shaludi—the Palestinian killed by Israeli police after he drove his car into passengers at a rail station, killing a 3-month-old baby—mourn at the house in Silwan.
October 22, 2014
Protesters listen to speeches at the main protest site at Admiralty during a downpour. Talks between government officials and the protesters are at a standstill as the protest reaches its fourth week.
October 22, 2014
A gust of wind blows Pope Francis’s mantle as he leaves at the end of his weekly audience in St. Peter’s Square.
October 21, 2014
Moroccan horsemen perform during the seventh edition of the Salon du Cheval in the port city.
October 19, 2014
Secretary of State John Kerry (C) walks across the tarmac during a refueling stop en route to Jakarta.
October 19, 2014
Pink powder is spread over a dog held by a participant in the annual Holi Run. About 20,000 revelers attended the Holi Run Madrid, a 3.1-mile race without winners where participants are showered and cover each other with colored powder.
