The World in Photos This Week

A Spanish festival, voting in Iran, and more violence in Syria.

MARCH 2, 2012

Syrian mourners carry the body of a man killed by shrapnel in Qusayr, nine miles from Homs, on Feb. 28. As Michael Weiss wrote in Foreign Policy, this week "the Syrian rebels have made a 'tactical withdrawal' from the restive neighborhood of Baba Amr, which withstood a month of rocket fire, drone-guided artillery shelling, and possibly even helicopter gunship attacks by President Bashar al-Assad's security forces."

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