Photos: Iran mourns 165 people killed in school strike
Attack in southern Iran that hit civilians was the deadliest of the US-Israeli war against Tehran so far.
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People carry a large Iranian flag as they gather in Tehran. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]
Iranians gather to mourn Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s killing in US-Israeli strikes. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]
Khamenei was Iran's supreme leader since 1989. [Atta Kenare/AFP]
He was killed in the opening salvo of a massive US and Israeli attack that continued into a second day on March 1. [Atta Kenare/AFP]
Iranian state television confirmed Khamenei's death early on Sunday. [Atta Kenare/AFP]
People in Tehran mourn the death of Khamenei. [Atta Kenare/AFP]
The IRGC pledged to launch the “most ferocious” operation in history against Israel and US bases. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]
Iran's state broadcaster said 27 US bases in the region, as well as Israel's military headquarters and a defence industries complex in Tel Aviv, were among the targets of a new wave of strikes. [Atta Kenare/AFP]
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Yasser Goyani carries a tambourine and walks with children carrying illuminated lanterns in preparation for celebrating the arrival of the month of Ramadan on the eve of the first day of Ramadan, in the Old City of Mosul. [Ismael Adnan/Al Jazeera]
A girl holds a glowing lantern on the eve of the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. [Ismael Adnan/Al Jazeera]
Children carry lanterns on the eve of the first day of Ramadan at the Bytna Foundation for Culture, Arts and Heritage in the Old City of Mosul. [Ismael Adnan/Al Jazeera]
Ghufran Thamer, 34, takes on the role of a musaharati in the Old City of Mosul, waking people for the suhoor meal during Ramadan. [Ismael Adnan/Al Jazeera]
Worshippers perform tarawih prayers at the Great Mosque of al-Nuri. [Ismael Adnan/Al Jazeera]
The last tarawih prayers at the Great Mosque of al-Nuri were held nine years ago. [Ismael Adnan/Al Jazeera]
Abeer al-Ghanem, 52, performs the role of a traditional storyteller, known as a hakawati, at the Bayt Ahluna Cultural Foundation. [Ismael Adnan/Al Jazeera]
A customer buys raisin juice at Taha’s shop, one of the most famous in Mosul. [Ismael Adnan/Al Jazeera]
A man arranges zalabiya, the traditional sweet popular during Ramadan, in his shop at the Nabi Yunus Market in Mosul. [Ismael Adnan/Al Jazeera]
People shop at the historic Bab al-Saray market in the Old City of Mosul. [Ismael Adnan/Al Jazeera]
Khalil Mahmoud, 65, has been selling dates in Bab al-Saray for almost 40 years. [Ismael Adnan/Al Jazeera]
Fahd Mohammed Kashmoula, 55, second from right, plays the traditional game of siniya in the Old City of Mosul. [Ismael Adnan/Al Jazeera]
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Firefighters carry a body found amid the debris after a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Barrio Parque Jardim Burnier neighbourhood in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, on February 24, 2026. [Pablo Porciuncula/AFP]
Brazilian military police officers search for victims amid the debris after a landslide caused by heavy rains in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais state. [Pablo Porciuncula/AFP]
Rescue workers carry the body of a victim recovered from debris after a landslide caused by heavy rains in Juiz de Fora. [Pablo Porciuncula/AFP]
Firefighters search for victims at the site of a landslide in Juiz de Fora. [Pablo Porciuncula/AFP]
State firefighters said 30 people had died in the cities of Juiz de Fora and Uba, and that more than 200 people had been rescued. [Pablo Porciuncula/AFP]
Juiz de Fora’s mayor, Margarida Salomao, declared a state of emergency. [Pablo Porciuncula/AFP]
Rescue teams remove debris in search of victims at the site of a landslide in Juiz de Fora. [Pablo Porciuncula/AFP]
Juiz de Fora’s mayor, Margarida Salomao said her municipality was experiencing its wettest February on record, with 584mm of accumulated rainfall. [Pablo Porciuncula/AFP]
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A woman navigates a debris-filled street where destroyed Russian military vehicles stand in Bucha on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 3, 2022 [Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo]
A pregnant woman who was severely wounded during Russian shelling is evacuated from a maternity hospital in Mariupol. The woman did not survive, March 9, 2022. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]
Ukrainians crowd under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee by crossing the Irpin River on the outskirts of Kyiv, March 5, 2022. [Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo]
A man recovers items from a shop that caught fire in a Russian attack in Kharkiv, March 25, 2022. [Felipe Dana/AP Photo]
Bodies are placed in a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, March 9, 2022. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]
A Ukrainian police officer takes cover in front of a burning building that was hit in a Russian air strike in Avdiivka, March 17, 2023. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]
A Ukrainian MSLR BM-21 "Grad" rocket launcher of the 95 Air Assault brigade fires toward Russian positions on the front line near Kreminna, March 9, 2023. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]
A woman cries during the funeral ceremony of Ihor Kusochek, a Ukrainian soldier of the Azov brigade in Bobrovytsia, Chernihiv region, October 4, 2024. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]
A Ukrainian serviceman shouts to paramedics in front of the bodies of people killed after a Russian rocket attack on the food market in the city centre of Kostiantynivka, September 6, 2023. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]
Multiple wounds can be seen on the face of Kostiantyn Bychek during a hospital visit in Kyiv. He was injured in a Russian attack, April 25, 2025. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]
Ukrainian military doctors treat an injured comrade who was evacuated from the battlefield in a hospital in the Donetsk region. The serviceman did not survive, January 9, 2023. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]
A man plants sunflowers in his garden between a damaged Russian tank and its turret in the village of Velyka Dymerka, Kyiv region, May 17, 2023. [Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo]
Rescue workers carry an injured woman on a stretcher out of a house destroyed by a Russian air strike in a residential neighbourhood in Kyiv, April 24, 2025. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]
Snow covers the photograph of a fallen Ukrainian serviceman in downtown Kyiv, March 12, 2024. [Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo]
Ukrainian servicemen walk through a charred forest along the front line, a few kilometers (miles) from Andriivka, Donetsk region, September 16, 2023. [Mstyslav Chernov/AP Photo]
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A worker with the Times Square Alliance sanitation crew shovels snow in Times Square in New York, US. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]
More than 40 million people were under weather warnings in the northeastern US on Monday, as a winter storm dumped shin-deep snow and officials in New York enforced a citywide travel ban. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered nonessential drivers off the road until Monday midday and shut down schools. Authorities in neighbouring New Jersey and Rhode Island issued similar travel restrictions. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]
The storm came just weeks after the region recovered from another devastating winter weather system that was linked to more than 100 deaths. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]
Hannah and Astrid Grimskog play in Times Square during the snowstorm in New York. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]
"I am sick of it. I don't want to see no more snow," Vincent Greer, a resident of Wildwood, New Jersey, said as he shovelled outside his building. [Drew Callister/AP Photo]
Pedestrians stop to take photos of Trinity Church graveyard in lower Manhattan during the snowstorm. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]
The National Weather Service said snowfall would ebb overnight but warned that strong winds would still create blizzard conditions in some areas. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]
Big cities, including New York and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, advertised dedicated warming centres for people caught outside in the cold. [Heather Khalifa/AP Photo]
A man carries an inflatable inner tube for snow sledging in Prospect Park in the borough of Brooklyn, New York. [Drew Callister/AP Photo]
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The Italian flag is presented during the closing ceremony of the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics 2026 at the Verona Arena. [Piero Cruciatti/AFP]
Flagbearers parade during the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics 2026. [Gabriel Bouys/AFP]
Jun Ichikawa performs as the opera character Madama Butterfly during the closing ceremony. [Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters]
The closing ceremony paid tribute to Italian dance and music. [Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo]
Italian singer-songwriter Joan Thiele (L) performs during the closing ceremony. [Piero Cruciatti/AFP]
A total of 116 medal events were held in eight Olympic sports across 16 disciplines, including the debut of ski mountaineering this year, over 17 days of competition. [Bernat Armangue/AP Photo]
Artists perform during the closing ceremony. [Bernat Armangue/AP Photo]
The Olympic and Italian flags during the closing ceremony of the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics 2026. [Piero Cruciatti/AFP]
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A firefighter extinguishes a burning bus set on fire by organised crime groups at one of the main avenues in Zapopan, Jalisco state, Mexico. [Ulises Ruiz/AFP]
Smoke billows from burning vehicles amid a wave of violence following a military operation in which a government source said Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera, also known as "El Mencho", was killed in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco state. [@morelifediares/Instagram/YouTube via Reuters]
Burned cars and trucks set on fire by organised crime groups on a highway near Acatlan de Juarez, Jalisco state. [Ulises Ruiz/AFP]
A man rides a bike past a convenience store that was set on fire, in San Francisco del Ricon, Guanajuato state, Mexico. [Alfredo Valadez/AP Photo]
A soldier stands guard by a charred vehicle that was set on fire in Cointzio. [Armando Solis/AP Photo]
A car passes by a burned truck set on fire on a highway near Acatlan de Juarez. [Ulises Ruiz/AFP]
“El Mencho” was killed in a shootout in his home state on Sunday as the Mexican military attempted to capture him. [Alfredo Estrella/AFP]
National Guard personnel at Guadalajara airport in Tlajomulco, Jalisco. [Ulises Ruiz/AFP]
A man takes pictures with his mobile phone next to the members of the National Guard on patrol, after authorities reinforced security following roadblocks and arson attacks carried out by organised gangs in several states, in Acapulco. [Henry Romero/Reuters]
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Residents of the Behsud district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, inspect the damage caused by a Pakistani strike on February 22, 2026. [Hedayat Shah/AP Photo]
People search for victims after a Pakistani strike hit a residential area in Girdi Kas village of Behsud district, Nangarhar. [Aimal Zahir/AFP]
Nangarhar police told the AFP news agency that the bombardment started about midnight (19:30 GMT on Saturday) and hit three districts. [Aimal Zahir/AFP]
Islamabad says it targeted armed groups that have carried out attacks in Pakistan, but Kabul has repeatedly denied allowing armed groups to use Afghan territory to stage attacks in Pakistan. [Reuters]
People surround the coffins of victims during a mass burial at Girdi Kas village in Behsud. [AFP]
People dig a mass grave for the victims killed in Pakistani strikes in Girdi Kas village. [AFP]
Taliban security officials and local residents inspect the scene of the air strikes near the Pakistan-Afghan border in Nangarhar. [Samiullah Popal/EPA]
Afghanistan's Defence Ministry says it will "deliver an appropriate and calculated response" to the Pakistani strikes. [Reuters]
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French firefighters search for a 53-year-old man who disappeared in the Loire River after his boat capsized during flooding in Chalonnes-sur-Loire, western France [Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP]
A flooded road in Chalonnes-sur-Loire, western France. [Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP]
Floodwater surrounds houses in Jusix, in the Lot-and-Garonne department of southwestern France. [Ed Jones/AFP]
Four departments in western France were placed under red alert for the risk of flooding. [Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP]
Officials expect the situation to worsen with the arrival of Storm Pedro, which is poised to batter swaths of Western Europe. [Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP]
National weather service Meteo-France said on Wednesday the country was experiencing its longest series of rainy days since measurements began in 1959. [Romain Perrocheau/AFP]
A flooded house in Sainte-Croix-du-Mont, western France. [Romain Perrocheau/AFP]
The new rainfall from Storm Pedro could “fuel the current floods”, said Lucie Chadourne-Facon, director of flood alert service Vigicrues. [Romain Perrocheau/AFP]
This aerial view shows the Garonne River in Tonneins, in the Lot-and-Garonne department, southwestern France. [Ed Jones/AFP]
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A sand sculpture bearing the message 'Welcome, Ramadan' stands along a Khan Younis beach on the eve of the Muslim holy month. The artwork was created by Yazeed Abu Jarad, a Palestinian artist who fled his home in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, in the ongoing war [Bashar Taleb/AFP]
Muslim worshippers perform evening Tarawih prayer on the first night of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Great Omari Mosque, which was damaged during the Israel's war on Gaza, in Gaza City. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Palestinians hang decorations beside the rubble of destroyed homes as they prepare for the holy month of Ramadan in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
A Palestinian vendor sells food in a market before the holy month of Ramadan in Gaza City. [Mohammed Saber/EPA]
Palestinians displaced during the two-year Israeli offensive wait to fill water containers in Gaza City. [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]
Muslim worshippers perform evening Tarawih prayer on the first night of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza City. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Under the “ceasefire” deal between Israel and Hamas that came into effect in early October, at least 600 aid trucks were supposed to enter the Strip each day. However, the actual number allowed in by Israel is far less. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
In addition, there are daily violations by Israel. Attacks on the war-devastated enclave have continued nearly daily since the “ceasefire” began, killing more than 600 Palestinians. [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
Palestinians celebrate the start of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Gaza City. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
Families that once had full tables during Ramadan before the war, more than two years ago, now organise their fasting day around aid distribution schedules. Many rely on soup kitchens as Israel refuses to allow in more aid and basic supplies to Gaza. [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]
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