--- description: From female fighters in Syria and smugglers under Gaza to the second anniversary of Libya's uprising and a 100-year-old hospital for dolls, TIME presents the best images of the week. title: The Best Pictures of the Week: February 15 - 22 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb37beb72e56ad897/6987a3cb8e0601256845cd54/2013-02-17t193507z_230310836_gm1e92i09.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [LightBox](/tag/time-section-lightbox/) ## LightBox Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Pictures of the Week: February 15 - 22 by [Phil Bicker](/author/phil-bicker/) ## Phil Bicker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 22, 2013 3:16 PM CUT  Feb. 17, 2013\. Women from Sawt al-Haq (Voice of Rights) stand with their weapons as they undergo military training in Aleppo, Syria. Feb. 17, 2013\. Women from Sawt al-Haq (Voice of Rights) stand with their weapons as they undergo military training in Aleppo, Syria.Muzaffar Salman—Reuters by [Phil Bicker](/author/phil-bicker/) ## Phil Bicker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 22, 2013 3:16 PM CUT From female fighters in Syria and smugglers under Gaza to the second anniversary of Libya’s uprising and a 100-year-old hospital for dolls, TIME presents the best images of the week.  Feb. 15, 2013\. Children walk on the Askia mausoleum, built in 1495, in Gao, northern Mali. Jerome Delay—AP  Feb. 17, 2013\. Women from Sawt al-Haq (Voice of Rights) stand with their weapons as they undergo military training in Aleppo, Syria. Muzaffar Salman—Reuters  Feb. 17, 2013\. Spanish apprentice bullfighter Francisco de Asis "Lama de Gongora" touches his face during the first International Biennial of bullfighting at Reservatauro Ronda cattle ranch in Ronda, near Malaga, Spain. Jon Nazca—Reuters  Feb. 19, 2013\. A Palestinian works inside a smuggling tunnel flooded by Egyptian forces, beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa—Reuters  Feb. 17, 2013\. The body of a baby, killed in last week's bomb attack in a Shi'ite Muslim area, lies in a coffin at a mosque during a funeral ceremony in the Pakistani city of Quetta. Naseer Ahmed—Reuters  Feb. 17, 2013\. A bride waits for her groom during a mass wedding ceremony of the Unification Church at Cheongshim Peace World Centre in Gapyeong, South Korea. Kim Hong-Ji—Reuters  Feb. 17, 2013\. North Korean soldiers ride an escalator past a model of their country's Unha Rocket as they enter an exhibition in Pyongyang, North Korea. David Guttenfelder—AP  Feb. 17, 2013\. Andre Best, on his horse 'Niya,' competes during the 'Grand Prix The St. Leger Club of Lucerne' race in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Alexandra Wey—EPA  Libyans release lanterns into the air, at Nasr Square, during the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled long-time dictator Moammar Gadhafi, in Benghazi, Libya. Mohammad Hannon—AP  Feb. 19, 2013\. A model gets made up backstage during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain. Susana Vera—Reuters  Feb. 15, 2013\. Women pray during the traditional Friday prayer at the Askia mausoleum's mosque in Gao, northern Mali. Jerome Delay—AP  Feb. 16, 2013\. Artists perform during the Carnival parade in Nice, France. Eric Gaillard— Reuters  Feb. 15, 2013\. Conceptual artist Pandemonia poses for a photograph outside Somerset House during London Fashion Week. Suzanne Plunkett—Reuters  A dhobi, or clothes washer, tries to retrieve a piece of cloth blown by the wind on the river banks of Sabarmati in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Amit Dave—Reuters  Feb. 16, 2013\. Female North Korean traffic police officers gather in front of bronze statues of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il to pay their respects in Pyongyang, North Korea. David Guttenfelder —AP  Feb. 16, 2013\. Villagers gather around the flag-draped casket of Pakistani soldier Muhammad Akhlaq before his funeral in Rawalpindi, India. Sohail Shahzad—Reuters  Feb. 16, 2013\. A dummy is displayed in a flat used by rebel fighters to confront Syrian government forces in the Salaheddine neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  Feb. 16, 2013\. South African Ntsoana Contemporary Dance Company perform 'Displacement Powerlines' at the South African Dance Umbrella in Johannesburg, South Africa. John Hogg—EPA  Feb. 16, 2013\. Visitors look at a model of Knut the polar bear on the first day it was displayed to the public at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, Germany. Sean Gallup—Getty Images  Feb. 17, 2013\. Spectators watch a dog fighting match in Chakwal, around 100 kilometers from Islamabad. Farooq Naeem—AFP/Getty Images  Feb. 17, 2013\. Spanish bullfighter Manuel Jesus "El Cid" is seen through a small window of a door as he performs a pass to a heifer during a "tentadero" (a small bullfight to check the bravery of calves and heifers which are not killed) during the first International Biennial of bullfighting at Reservatauro Ronda cattle ranch in Ronda, near Malaga. Jon Nazca—Reuters  Feb. 17, 2013\. A man prepares graves for the burial of victims of last week's bomb attack in a Shi'ite Muslim area, in the Pakistani city of Quetta. Naseer Ahmed—Reuters  Feb. 17, 2013\. A Catholic faithful attends a mass on the first Sunday of lent at the Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Ricardo Moraes—Reuters  Feb. 17, 2013\. Archbishop of Santiago Ricardo Ezzati listens to a confession from a Roman Catholic faithful during mass at Santiago Cathedral in Santiago, Chile. Ivan Alvarado—Reuters  Feb. 17, 2013\. A woman, who is part of the Sawt al-Haq (Voice of Rights), holds a weapon as she undergoes military training in Aleppo, Syria. Muzaffar Salman—Reuters  Feb. 18, 2013\. A soldier uses a welding torch to destroy a gun handed in by a resident during the "Voluntary Disarmament Programme" at the Venustiano Carranza district in Mexico City, Mexico. Tomas Bravo—Reuters  Feb. 18, 2013\. Country Fire Authority (CFA) firefighters and the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) work to contain a blaze Bushfires at Grampians National Park, Victoria, Australia. Jason Edward—Newspix/Rex  Feb. 18, 2013\. Indian youngsters play cricket during an anti-malaria fumigation in Mumbai, India. Divyakant Solanki — EPA  Feb. 18, 2013\. Women bathe in mud in a presentation for the inauguration of the National Meeting of Rural Women, in Brasilia, Brazil. Eraldo Peres—AP  Feb. 18, 2013\. A woman displays her dog's skills to her neighbors at the Alfama neighborhood in Lisbon, Portugal. Rafael Marchante—Reuters  Feb. 18, 2013\. A Syrian refugee, who was injured while crossing the border, waits for ambulance in Jordan. Mohammad Abu Ghosh — ZUMAPRESS.com  Feb. 19, 2013 Syrian refugees walk near Mafraq, as they cross the border from Syria into Jordan. Mohammad Abu Ghosh — ZUMAPRESS.com  Feb. 19, 2013\. Syrians inspect destruction following an apparent surface-to-surface missile strike on the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Shaam News Network/AFP/Getty Images  Feb. 19, 2013\. A soldier from the Somali National Army (SNA) laying on a bed at an SNA infirmary in Belet Weyne, where the SNA are given training by the Djiboutian contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia. Tobin Jones—AFP/Getty Images  Feb. 19, 2013..The hands of a blind person touch the Veiled Christ by Giuseppe Sanmartino during the special opening of the Museum of the Chapel of Sansevero, for the blind and visually impaired, in Naples, Italy. Cesare Abbate — ZUMAPRESS.com  Feb. 19, 2013\. Spare doll heads are seen at Sydney's Original Doll Hospital in Bexley in Sydney, Australia. Mark Kolbe—Getty Images  Feb. 24, 2013\. A costume shop employee eats his lunch ahead of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Oded Balilty—AP  Feb. 19, 2013\. A model presents a creation from the Meadham Kirchhoff Autumn/Winter 2013 collection during London Fashion Week. Suzanne Plunkett—Reuters  Feb. 19, 2013\. A boy looks for reuseable materials at his charred home after a fire hit a residential area in Valenzuela City, Philippines. Rouelle Umali—ZUMAPRESS.com  Feb. 19, 2013\. Yemeni soldiers and firefighters work to extinguish fire at the site of a plane crash in Sanaa, Yemen. Hani Mohammed—AP  19 Feb. 19, 2013\. A motorcyclist rides past a Chinese security guard outside an office building in Beijing, China. How Hee Young—EPA  Feb. 19, 2013\. A masked Palestinian attends a protest to support Palestinian prisoners, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Bernat Armangue—AP  Feb. 19, 2013\. Type Marder infantry fighting vehicles of the German Army are parked cheek by jowl in Rockensussra, Germany. Marc Tirl—DPA/Landov  Feb. 20, 2013\. A U.S. Marine drinks the blood of a cobra during a jungle survival exercise with the Thai Navy as part of the "Cobra Gold 2013" joint military exercise, at a military base in Chon Buri province, Thailand. Damir Sagolj—Reuters  Feb. 20, 2013\. A Thai Navy instructor demonstrates to U.S. Marines how to catch a cobra during a jungle survival exercise as part of the "Cobra Gold 2013" joint military exercise, at a military base in Chon Buri province, Thailand. Damir Sagolj — Reuters  Feb. 20, 2013\. U.S. marines react as a cobra gets too close to them during a jungle survival exercise with the Thai Navy as part of the "Cobra Gold 2013" joint military exercise, at a military base in Chon Buri province, Thailand. Damir Sagolj—Reuters  Feb. 20, 2013\. Shi'ite Muslims carry coffins of victims killed in last week's bomb attack, during a funeral in Quetta, Pakistan. Naseer Ahmed—Reuters  Feb. 20, 2013\. A girl who returned from school cries upon seeing her house destroyed after a jet missile hit the al-Myassar neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria. Muzaffar Salman — Reuters  Feb. 20, 2013\. A Syrian child is helped following an explosion in the city of Aleppo, Syria. Mauricio Morales—AFP/Getty Images  Feb. 20, 2013\. Indonesian men put a chain onto a young pig-tailed macaque as it is displayed for sale in Padang Pariaman, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Rivo Andries — AP  Feb. 20, 2013\. A woman begs for alms at the premises of Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. Navesh Chitrakar — Reuters  Feb. 20, 2013\. Khurram Mehtab checks a film strip before playing it for spectators at a cinema in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen — AP  Feb. 20, 2013\. Activists watch a televised broadcast of the Champions League soccer match between Barcelona and AC Milan in a school hall in Aleppo, Syria. Muzaffar Salman — Reuters  Feb. 20, 2013\. Displaced Syrian children attend school in a makeshift classroom in the Azaz camp for displaced people, north of Aleppo province in Syria. Manu Brabo—AP  Feb. 20, 2013\. Boys play on the roof of the entrance to a football stadium in Gao, Mali. Joe Penney—Reuters  Feb. 20, 2013\. A model gets made up backstage during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain. Juan Medina—Reuters  Feb. 20, 2013\. Oscar Pistorius enters the court room during the second day of his bail application at Pretoria Magistrates Court, Pretoria, South Africa. Chris Ricco—PA Photos/Landov  Feb. 21, 2013\. A Malian soldier takes cover amidst dust after a rocket propelled grenade was fired by his comrades in Gao. Joe Penney—Reuters  Feb. 21, 2013\. A Malian soldier fires an AK-47 during fighting with Islamists in Gao. Joe Penney—Reuters  Feb. 21, 2013\. In a handout provided by SANA, Syrians carry an injured man after a blast in Damascus, Syria. SANA—Xinhua/Landov  Feb. 20, 2013 Mexican soldiers stand guard during a drug burning in Tijuana, Mexico. Guillermo Arias—Zuma Press  Feb. 21, 2013\. Egyptian men inspect posters of slain men with their picture and Arabic that reads their names "Ahmed el-Syyed, Mohammed Ali Ibrahim, Islam, Osama el-Sherbiny, Ahmed el-Shahat," at a protest camp in front of the provincial government headquarters, during the fifth day of a general strike, in Port Said, Egypt. Nasser Nasser—AP  Feb. 21, 2013\. A Bahraini boy stands on chairs holding national flags during a pro-government rally in the village of Arad on the Bahraini island of Muharreq. Mohammed Al-Shaikh—AFP/Getty Images  Feb. 21, 2013 Dancers from the PAYM Youths Poppera wait to perform during a media preview for Fire In Snow, Chingay Parade in Singapore. Chris McGrath—Getty Images  Feb. 20, 2013\. Golf spectators look for cover as snow forces suspension of play during the first round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship golf tournament in Marana, Arizona. Matt Sullivan—Reuters  Feb. 22, 2013\. A woman is rescued from flood waters by a resident standing on top of her car during heavy rain in Chalandri suburb north of Athens. John Kolesidis—Reuters  Feb. 22, 2013\. Photographers take photos of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius as he stands in the dock during his bail hearing at the magistrates court in Pretoria, South Africa. Themba Hadebe—AP  Feb. 22, 2013Oscar Pistorius (C) is pictured through a car window as he leaves court after he was granted bail of $113,000 on charges of murdering his girlfriend. 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