September 17, 2014
Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the U.S. strategy to defeat ISIS.
September 16, 2014
Firefighters battling the King Fire watch as a backfire burns along Highway 50. The fire led officials to call on about 400 people to evacuate from areas threatened by the blaze, Cal Fire spokeswoman Alyssa Smith said. It has charred more than 11,500 acres and was 5 percent contained on Tuesday.
September 16, 2014
Flames and smoke from the King Fire fill the sky. Picture taken with a long exposure.
September 19, 2014
An Afghan resident walks ahead of a child on a hilltop overlooking the city. Afghanistan’s economy has improved significantly since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, largely because of the infusion of international assistance. Despite significant improvement in the last decade, the country is still extremely poor and remains highly dependent on foreign aid.
September 16, 2014
Shiite fighters who have joined the Iraqi army to fight ISIS take part in field training in the desert.
September 19, 2014
An Iraqi policeman stands guard as a coffin of the victim of a suicide car bombing is carried away in the Shiite shrine district of Kadhimiyah. Two bombings and shelling in Shiite-majority areas of north Baghdad killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 50, security and medical officials said.
September 14, 2014
A Free Syrian Army fighter carries his weapon on one of the frontlines of Wadi Al-Dayf camp in the southern Idlib countryside.
September 14, 2014
Red Cross health workers wearing protective suits prepare to carry the body of an Ebola victim at the Doctors Without Borders Ebola treatement center near the Donka hospital. The epidemic, the worst since the virus was first identified in 1976, has killed more than 2,400 people and infected twice that number, according to a new toll released September 12 by the World Health Organization.
September 14, 2014
Palestinian children walk to school in the Shejaiya neighborhood on the first day of the new school year. Half a million children in Gaza are starting the new school year three weeks late as a result of the devastating 50-day war between Israel and Hamas that ended August 26.
September 16, 2014
A girl from the Burji ethnic tribe carries a jerry can of water back to her home.
September 14, 2014
Fashion blogger Toni Tran (@FASHITECT) poses at a portrait session during London Fashion Week SS15 at Somerset House in London, England.
September 14, 2014
Competitors take part in the McVitties Mud Madness race at Foymore Lodge. The four-mile run takes place through a mucky course of fields, ponds, and bogs, and more than a thousand runners make their way over obstacles including a tire pit, foxhole, and sink holes in aid of the Marie Curie Cancer Care charity.
