Conflict Pictures

Protesters wearing bizarre masks demonstrate against President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term.

Akintunde Akinleye photographed former Boko Haram strongholds in north-eastern Nigeria.

Demonstrators torched cars and smashed bank windows during a protest against the opening of Milan's Expo 2015.

Thousands of police manned barricades and closed streets to stop demonstrations at Taksim.

AFP photographer Bülent Kiliç wins The John Faber Award for his series on the anti-government protests in Kiev.

Reuters photographer Asmaa Waguih documents women Kurdish fighters on Mount Sinjar in Iraq.

Baltimore is two cities: the crime-ridden area from The Wire, and a gleaming city on the waterfront.

Members of El Salvador's rival MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs are put in the same prison, ending policy of segregation.

South African police had to disperse immigrants armed with machetes in an area east of Johannesburg.

Text message claims "Zulu people are coming to town to kill every foreigner on the road".

At least seven dead as Islamist militants blast their way into a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

An estimated 40,000 people have returned to Kobani, with thousands more arriving every week.

Battles against terror groups such as Isis and Boko Haram pushed death tolls up.

Syrian rebels unveil the Volcano, a weapon in the fight against President Bashar Assad's forces.

Iraqi forces and Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias fight to retake the city of Tikrit from Isis.

Andrew Burton photographs families living in a basement shelter in the Petrovskiy area of Donetsk.

Chadian troops in northern Nigeria show off Boko Haram prisoners, weapons and military vehicles.

Pro-Russian rebels watch as Ukrainian prisoners search through the ruins to recover dead comrades.

Most of Debaltseve's 26,000 residents fled, but up to 5,000 stayed, many too elderly to flee.

Ukrainian troops, covered in dirt and looking exhausted, retreat from Debaltseve

Rockets kill civilians and soldiers in Ukrainian government-held town of Kramatorsk.

Photographs show reported barrel bomb attacks on rebel-held areas of Syria.

Syrian forces repeatedly pound the rebel-held area of Douma in response to Damascus attack.

Bodies of alleged Islamic State fighters lie in the rubble of destroyed town Kobani.

Photos of Kobani show entire blocks levelled after Kurdish fighters liberated the town from Isis.

Ukrainian POWs were paraded at the scene of a bus attack that killed at least eight in Donetsk.

The statue on Place de la Republique in Paris has been transformed into a tribute to the victims.

The latest photos of the unfolding hostage drama at a Jewish supermarket in Paris.

French anti-terrorist police have surrounded Dammartin-en-Goele, a small industrial town.

Thousands of people join rallies in memory of the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris.