Islamabad, Pakistan Afghan refugee girls sit in a hole in the ground, playing with a doll in a slum
Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP
A door rests on the floor of a tent that has been dismantled as part of the closure of part of the massive Bagram airbase in Afghanistan. The base will now house roughly 13,000 foreign troops, mostly Americans, who will remain in the country under a new two-year mission to train Afghan troops
Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters
Manama, Bahrain Bahraini anti-government protesters holding a national flag take cover from tear gas during clashes
Photograph: Hasan Jamali/AP
In Bahrain, protesters run for cover from teargas during clashes with riot police following a protest against the arrest of Sheikh Ali Salman, the head of the banned Shia opposition movement al-Wefaq
Photograph: Mohammed Al-Shaikh/AFP/Getty