See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

Several groups of artists gathered this Wednesday in Dakar to paint a mural and denounce the violence between the armed group ...

On the streets I once walked and drove down daily, near the shopping centre where I bought my groceries, dead bodies lay ...

February 06, 2025 The rebels of the March 23 Movement (M23) have called on the population of Goma, located in the east of the ...

More than 100 female inmates of an African prison were raped and burned alive during a jailbreak, the United Nations said.

Kilauea volcano began shooting lava into the air once again Tuesday on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kilauea, one of the world's ...

While the heat and ash from the volcano was catastrophic for the town, it preserved the scrolls - though in an unreadable state. Image: An X-ray scan of part of one of the scrolls. Pic ...

This is the astounding moment a tourist captured the moment a volcano erupted behind him as he tried to pose for a dramatic snap. Echa Thawil is a travel content creator with over 5,000 ...

Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations, after it was captured by rebels following days of fierce ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...

Kilauea volcano began shooting lava into the air once again Tuesday on the Big Island of Hawaii. This is the ninth episode of eruptive activity since Dec. 23, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.