Pictures of the year: Conflict

A Syria Civil Defence member carries a wounded child in the besieged town of Hamoria, Eastern Ghouta, in Damasmore

The Iron Dome anti-missile system fires an interceptor missile as rockets are launched from Gaza towards Israemore

Saleh Hassan al-Faqeh holds the hand of his 4-month-old daughter, Hajar, who died at the malnutrition ward of more

Wounded children are seen in a hospital in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria, Februamore

A South Korean military officer (R) and a North Korean military officer shake hands during an operation to recmore

A child sleeps in a bag in the village of Beit Sawa, eastern Ghouta, Syria, March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanamore

Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army fighters sit on a bus in the town of al-Rai, Syria, February 14, 2018. REUTmore

Afghan journalists are seen after a second blast in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 30, 2018. The explosion killed nmore

A Palestinian man argues with an Israeli soldier during clashes over an Israeli order to shut down a Palestinimore

A man gets stuck under debris at a damaged site after an airstrike in the Saqba area, in the eastern Damascus more

A Houthi arms depot explodes after it was hit by air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen, January 31, 2018. REUTERS/Khaledmore

Slippers are pictured at the school compound in Dapchi in the northeastern state of Yobe, where dozens of schomore

A former child soldier holds a gun as they participate in a child soldiers' release ceremony, outside Yambio, more

A man is seen running after an air raid in the besieged town of Douma in eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria, Femore

A woman stands at her ruined house, after residents were allowed to return to their homes for the first time smore

Ethiopian Federal Police officers detain a woman suspected to be carrying explosives during the welcoming ceremore

People celebrate ceasefire in Rodat district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, June 16, 2018.REUTERS/Parwiz

A mural with handprints and messages from wounded people who had been recovered and discharged from the Medecimore

A man cries beside an injured girl at a hospital after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 22, 2018.more

A Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army fighter is seen in Afrin, Syria, March 2, 2018. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

Racahele-Ngabausi, 2, injured by militiamen when they attacked the village of Tchee, stands in an internally dmore

Smoke rises from the besieged Eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria, February 27, 2018. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army fighters carry their wounded colleague in Rajo, Syria, March 3, 2018. REUTERS/more

The Iron Dome anti-missile system fires interception missiles as rockets are launched from Gaza towards Israelmore

An Iraqi student walks past a school wall covered with drawings showing how Islamic State militants executed tmore

A man looks at an opening from a makeshift shelter in an underground cave in Idlib, Syria, September 3, 2018. more

Afghan police officers take position during a blast and gunfire in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, January 24, 2018. Rmore

Civil defence help an unconscious woman from a shelter in the besieged town of Douma in eastern Ghouta in Damamore

Iraqi woman Sana Ibrahim al-Taee, 64, whose five sons were killed by Islamic State militants, is seen with hermore

An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier inspects a passenger at a checkpoint on the Ghazni-Kabul highway, Afghanmore

A worker holds the body of an unborn baby whose mother was killed by an airstrike in Hodeida, Yemen, April 2, more

A boy stands as an aid convoy of Syrian Arab Red Crescent drives through the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Gmore

A woman holds a malnourished boy in a malnutrition treatment center at the al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen,more

A fighter loyal to Syrian President Bashar al Assad is seen during the evacuation from the villages of al-Fouamore

Women walk past shops in Manbej, in Aleppo countryside, Syria, May 10, 2018. REUTERS/Aboud Hamam

A child and a man are seen in hospital in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria, Februarmore

Palestinians gather around a building after it was bombed by an Israeli aircraft, in Gaza City, August 9, 2018more

Somali security agents take position as they secure the scene of a suicide car bombing near Somalia's presidenmore

A Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army fighter is seen in the eastern suburbs of al-Bab, Syria, February 8, 2018. REmore

Mave Grace, 11, who had part of her arm chopped off by militiamen when they attacked the village of Tchee, stamore