Top Shots: Compelling Images From Our Region

An Afghan farmer harvests wheat in the Arghandab district in Kandahar Province.

A son says goodbye and kisses his mother as Ukrainian police officers evacuate her from the frontline town of Pokrovsk in the war-torn Donetsk region.

Spanish police officers work near the body of Andriy Portnov, a lawyer and former Ukrainian presidential adviser who was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen outside a school in Madrid on May 21.

IndianArmy soldiers stand guard near the Line of Control between Pakistan and India in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Livestock vendors display their bulls to customers at a cattle market in Hyderabad in Pakistan's Sindh Province ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for a vote in the parliament in Budapest on withdrawing Hungary from the International Criminal Court.

A cat sits outside a residence observing other felines in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Pakistani Rangers (left) and Indian Border Security Force personnel perform the Attar-Wagah border ceremony at the frontier between the two countries on the outskirts of Amritsar.

Metropolitan Epifaniy I, the head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, sprays holy water on military chaplains during a joint prayer for victory and for fair peace for Ukraine, in St. Michael's Cathedral in Kyiv.

A man awakens during a heatwave that forced residents to seek shelter outdoors in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

A Ukrainian prisoner of war embraces his wife as he returns home following the first stage of a prisoner swap with Russia, which began on May 23.

An Afghan vendor holds a parrot for sale at a bird market in Kabul

The sun shines through the damaged roof of a church hit by Russian military strikes in the frontline Ukrainian town of Kostyantynivka.

A woman reacts as she visits the grave of her relative at a cemetery in Lviv as Ukrainians mark their country's Day of Heroes on May 23, a day which commemorates those who died for Ukraine's independence.

People gather outside the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow during a memorial ceremony for Russian ballet choreographer Yury Grigorovich, who recently died aged 98.

Iranian filmmaker Saeed Roustayi poses during a photocall for his movie Woman And Child, which is screening in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in France.