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Members of the 1st platoon Comanche Company of the United States Army and the Afghan Border Patrol secure a man suspected of setting a roadside bomb during a patrol operation in Buwri Tana District in Khost Province on August 7, Jose Cabezas /? AFP

Bahraini Shiite Muslims take part in a religious ceremony in central Manama early on August 10, 2012, commemorating the killing of the seventh century Imam Ali bin Abi Talib, Islam's fourth caliph and cousin and son-in-law of Prophet Mohammed. Mohammed Al-Shaikh / AFP

A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his weapon at Syrian Army soldiers from a balcony during clashes in Aleppo on August 10, 2012. Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

Iranian medics treat a man who was injured in an earthquake in the town of Varzaqan some 60 kms northeast of Tabriz, on August 11, 2012. Ali Hamed Haghdoost / AFP / MEHR NEWS

Palestinian refugee children play in between makeshift tents in the Al-Zaiton neighbourhood before breaking fast on the Holy Month of Ramadan, in the Gaza Strip, August 7, 2012. Ali Ali / EPA

A member of the Egyptian security forces takes position on a sand dune during an operation in the northern Sinai peninsula on August 8, 2012. Egypt, which launched air raids against Islamist militants in Sinai for the first time in decades, faces a tough enemy that has used the peninsula's rugged terrain to evade capture in the past. AFP

An Afghan man prays at a historic mosque in Samangan province, north of Kabul on August 7, 2012. Qais Usyan / AFP

A boy reads the Koran at a mosque during the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Karachi on August 11, 2012. Athar Hussain / Reuters

A Syrian boy waits for customers at a roadside stall set up just in time for the iftar meal in the town of Azaz, north of Aleppo, on August 11, 2012. Phil Moore / AFP

Members of the 1st platoon Comanche Company of the United States Army and the Afghan Border Patrol secure a man suspected of setting a roadside bomb during a patrol operation in Buwri Tana District in Khost Province on August 7, Jose Cabezas /? AFP

Bahraini Shiite Muslims take part in a religious ceremony in central Manama early on August 10, 2012, commemorating the killing of the seventh century Imam Ali bin Abi Talib, Islam's fourth caliph and cousin and son-in-law of Prophet Mohammed. Mohammed Al-Shaikh / AFP

A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his weapon at Syrian Army soldiers from a balcony during clashes in Aleppo on August 10, 2012. Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

Iranian medics treat a man who was injured in an earthquake in the town of Varzaqan some 60 kms northeast of Tabriz, on August 11, 2012. Ali Hamed Haghdoost / AFP / MEHR NEWS

Palestinian refugee children play in between makeshift tents in the Al-Zaiton neighbourhood before breaking fast on the Holy Month of Ramadan, in the Gaza Strip, August 7, 2012. Ali Ali / EPA

A member of the Egyptian security forces takes position on a sand dune during an operation in the northern Sinai peninsula on August 8, 2012. Egypt, which launched air raids against Islamist militants in Sinai for the first time in decades, faces a tough enemy that has used the peninsula's rugged terrain to evade capture in the past. AFP

An Afghan man prays at a historic mosque in Samangan province, north of Kabul on August 7, 2012. Qais Usyan / AFP

A boy reads the Koran at a mosque during the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Karachi on August 11, 2012. Athar Hussain / Reuters

A Syrian boy waits for customers at a roadside stall set up just in time for the iftar meal in the town of Azaz, north of Aleppo, on August 11, 2012. Phil Moore / AFP

Members of the 1st platoon Comanche Company of the United States Army and the Afghan Border Patrol secure a man suspected of setting a roadside bomb during a patrol operation in Buwri Tana District in Khost Province on August 7, Jose Cabezas /? AFP

The best photography from around the region this week: August 12

Mark Asquith

August 12, 2012

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The best images of the last seven days from around the Gulf and across the Middle East.