Jan. 27, 2015. Kurdish people celebrate near the Turkish-Syrian border at Suruc, in Sanliurfa province. Kurdish fighters have expelled Islamic State group militants from the Syrian border town of Kobani, dealing a key symbolic blow to the jihadists' ambitions.BULENT KILIC－AFP/Getty Images
From Kurdish fighters recapturing the ISIS held town of Kobani, Syria to the deadly attacks on Israeli forces by Hezbollah militants on the Israel-Lebanon border and life returns to normal with Ebola cases down to single digits in Liberia to blizzard Juno hitting the U.S. East Coast, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
Jan. 24, 2015. Groom Clarence Murvee takes his bride Bindu Quaye by the waist while entering their wedding reception in Monrovia, Liberia. With Ebola cases now in single digits nationwide, people have begun to return to normal life. John Moore－Getty ImagesJan. 27, 2015. Kurdish people celebrate near the Turkish-Syrian border at Suruc, in Sanliurfa province. Kurdish fighters have expelled Islamic State group militants from the Syrian border town of Kobani, dealing a key symbolic blow to the jihadists' ambitions. BULENT KILIC－AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 27, 2015. Seized cages of live cats are transported in a truck in Hanoi. The cats are destined for consumption after being smuggled from China. STR－AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 28, 2015. The wreckage left by fighting in the center of the Syrian town of Kobani. Kurdish forces recaptured the strategic town on the Turkish frontier in a symbolic blow for the jihadists who have seized swathes of territory in a brutal onslaught across Syria and Iraq. BULENT KILIC－AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 28, 2015. Frozen sea spray coats a house the day after a winter storm in Scituate, Mass.Michael Dwyer－APJan. 27, 2015. A burial team member wearing personal protective equipment stands for decontamination spray at the U.S.-built cemetery for safe burials in Disco Hill, Liberia. The cemetery has buried almost 300 people in its first month of operation, with increasingly fewer of the bodies coming from Ebola Treatment Units as infection rates decline. John Moore－Getty ImagesJan. 25, 2015. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have tea at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. Obama swept aside past friction with India to report progress on climate change and civilian nuclear power cooperation as he sought to transform a fraught relationship marked by suspicion into an enduring partnership linking the world's oldest and largest democracies. STEPHEN CROWLEY－The New York Times/ReduxJan. 28, 2015. Southern white rhinoceros walk through the Ol Pejeta Conservancy north of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, as conservationists and scientists met in Kenya to come up with a last ditch plan to save the rhinoceros from extinction. TONY KARUMBA－AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 27, 2015. A woman takes a selfie on a cold winter day in a park in Seoul. KIM HONG-JI－REUTERSJan. 23, 2015. Christina Strange mourns after laying a white rose on the casket for her fiancé, Army Sgt. 1st Class Ramon S. Morris, of New York City, during his burial services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Morris died in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when the enemy attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device. Strange is the mother of Morris' three-year-daughter. Jacquelyn Martin－APJan. 28, 2015. Israeli soldiers watch as a truck carries the military vehicle that was hit by a missile fired by Hezbollah on the Israel-Lebanon border. The event killed two soldiers in an apparent retaliation for a deadly airstrike attributed to Israel that killed six Hezbollah fighters in Syria earlier this month. Ariel Schalit－APJan. 27, 2015. A man rides his bike up Beacon Street during a blizzard in Boston, Mass. A blizzard swept across the northeastern U.S., dropping more than a foot of snow across Massachusetts and Connecticut. DOMINICK REUTER－REUTERSJan. 26, 2015. A member of the Secret Service's Uniformed Division sits in his car on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House in Washington, D.C. A small aerial drone was found on the grounds of the White House but poses no threat. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI－AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 26, 2015. Swans swim over a lake, with the air temperature at about -31 degrees Fahrenheit as steam ascends above the water during sunset near the village of Urozhainy, Sovetsky district of Altai region, Russia. ANDREI KASPRISHIN－REUTERSJan. 25, 2015. A girl plays with a curtain of water at Madureira park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. YASUYOSHI CHIBA－AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 27, 2015. Afghan policemen perform a drill during exercises at a police training centre in Herat. An estimated 17,000 foreign soldiers will stay on to assist the local police and army, who face a major challenge as the international military presence declines.AREF KARIMI－AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 27, 2015. A man pays tribute to the victims on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. JANEK SKARZYNSKI－AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 25, 2015. Jock VI, the current cat in residence at Chartwell, is seen on a memorial bench during a preview of Death of a Hero exhibition at Winston Churchill's family home. GARETH FULLER－PA Photos /LandovJan. 29, 2015. Israeli soldiers cry during the funeral of Major Yochai Kalangel in Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Iran for a deadly flare-up along the Israeli-Lebanese border, the deadliest escalation in the disputed zone since the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel.Sebastian Scheiner－APJan. 29, 2015. A Palestinian boy wearing a military costume arrives at a military-style graduation ceremony for Palestinian youths who were trained at one of the Hamas-run liberation camps in Gaza. Some 17,000 youths graduated from these camps that aim to prepare them to confront Israeli attacks. SUHAIB SALEM－REUTERS Jan. 30, 2015. The Eastern part of the destroyed city of Halimce, East of the Syrian town of Kobane. Kurdish forces recaptured the town on the Turkish frontier on January 26, in a symbolic blow to the jihadists who have seized large swathes of territory in their onslaught across Syria and Iraq. BULENT KILIC—AFP/Getty ImagesJan. 26, 2015. The Statue of Liberty is seen faintly through heavy snow in New York. Millions of people from New Jersey to Maine left work early, rushed off roads and took shelter as a snowstorm bore down on the region. KARSTEN MORAN－The New York Times/Redux
