July 10 - July 16, 2026
This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Anita Baca, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.
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Miriam Fernandez, wearing a traditional Cholita skirt, known as a pollera, rides her skateboard during a youth talent show in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, July 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Miriam Fernandez, wearing a traditional Cholita skirt, known as a pollera, rides her skateboard during a youth talent show in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, July 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
A woman stands next to the monument bearing the names of the victims of the Srebrenica genocide, at the Srebrenica Memorial Center in Potocari, Bosnia, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Albert Salgado is comforted by his girlfriend at the site where his uncle Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot by an ICE officer in Houston on Friday, July 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Annie Mulligan)
A reveler dodges a calf in the bullring after the eighth running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Miguel Oses)
England's Harry Kane, right, vies for the ball with Argentina's Lionel Messi during the World Cup semifinal soccer match between England and Argentina in Atlanta, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
France's Desire Doue covers his face after his side's lost against Spain at the end of their World Cup semifinal soccer match in Arlington, Texas, near Dallas, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Spain's Mikel Merino (6) celebrates after their win in the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Spain and Belgium in Inglewood, Calif., near Los Angeles, Friday, July 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Spanish fans celebrate in central Madrid after Spain's Mikel Oyarzabal scored the opening goal on a penalty kick during the World Cup semifinal soccer match between France and Spain played in Arlington, Texas, near Dallas, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Alysa Liu, left, Billie Jean King, center, and Kendall Coyne Schofield present the Billie Jean King youth leadership award at the ESPY Awards in the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center Wednesday, July 15, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Indian laborers plant saplings as part of the government's tree planting campaign in Gadha Village on the outskirts of Prayagraj in northern Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, July 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Participants sprint to the finish line during the teen race during the T-Rex World Championship Races at Emerald Downs, Sunday, July 12, 2026, in Auburn, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Linda Noskova of Czech Republic right, is embraced by Karolina Muchova of Czech Republic, after she won the women's singles final at Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Britain's Kate Princess of Wales walks from Center Court after presenting the trophies for the men's singles final at Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Sunday, July 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Spectators hold up their phones to capture Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland and Shane Lowry of Ireland during their practice round for the British Open Golf championships at Royal Birkdale golf club, in Southport, England, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
A man repairs a guitar string by the light of a flashlight on the Malecon seawall during a blackout in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Palestinian shepherd Thiab Draghme leads his flock of sheep and goats past an Israeli flag placed on a road in the northern Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, Tuesday, June 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Newly appointed U.S. interim Senator Darline Graham Nordone, center, receives applause from Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), left, and others at the conclusion of a news conference, Monday, July 13, 2026, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)
Mourners walk to a gathering commemorating the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque in Tehran, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Smoke rises to the sky following an Israeli military strike in Maghazi refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A view of a burnt area affected by wildfires in Bedar, near Almeria, Spain, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Marrero)
A blaze engulfs trees on the Summit Fire in Llano, CA. Friday, July 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Residents and stray dogs rest on the platform of a railway station to escape the heat in Banda, northern Indian state of Utter Pradesh, Saturday, June 20 , 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
French President Emmanuel Macron, right, speaks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky after the Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees avenue, in Paris, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
The body of a local resident is covered after a Russian air guided bomb hit private houses in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, July 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
A woman stands on a sidewalk after being rescued from flood waters by members of the Boerne Fire Dept. on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, in Boerne, Texas. (AP Photo/Darren Abate)
Volunteers pull a rope to remove a debris from a collapsed building by earthquakes in La Guaira, Venezuela, Sunday, July 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Yolimar Torres, left, cries after she and other family members found her daughter's body, which they recovered themselves from the rubble of a building collapsed by the earthquake in La Guaira, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Fireworks and drones illuminate the Eiffel Tower in Paris, during the eve of Bastille Day celebrations late Monday, July 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
A demonstrator fights back tears at an anti-ICE rally after a man was shot and killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday, July 13, 2026, in Biddeford, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Nick Blanchard leads a small rally in support of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, outside the State House in Augusta, Maine, Wednesday July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
President Donald Trump departs on Marine One after speaking at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
A counter protester yells at a volunteer providing security during a demonstration near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Scarborough, Maine, Tuesday, July 14, 2026, one day after the shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Miriam Fernandez, wearing a traditional Cholita skirt, known as a pollera, rides her skateboard during a youth talent show in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, July 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Miriam Fernandez, wearing a traditional Cholita skirt, known as a pollera, rides her skateboard during a youth talent show in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, July 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
A woman stands next to the monument bearing the names of the victims of the Srebrenica genocide, at the Srebrenica Memorial Center in Potocari, Bosnia, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
Albert Salgado is comforted by his girlfriend at the site where his uncle Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot by an ICE officer in Houston on Friday, July 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Annie Mulligan)
A reveler dodges a calf in the bullring after the eighth running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Miguel Oses)
England's Harry Kane, right, vies for the ball with Argentina's Lionel Messi during the World Cup semifinal soccer match between England and Argentina in Atlanta, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
France's Desire Doue covers his face after his side's lost against Spain at the end of their World Cup semifinal soccer match in Arlington, Texas, near Dallas, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Spain's Mikel Merino (6) celebrates after their win in the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Spain and Belgium in Inglewood, Calif., near Los Angeles, Friday, July 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Spanish fans celebrate in central Madrid after Spain's Mikel Oyarzabal scored the opening goal on a penalty kick during the World Cup semifinal soccer match between France and Spain played in Arlington, Texas, near Dallas, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Alysa Liu, left, Billie Jean King, center, and Kendall Coyne Schofield present the Billie Jean King youth leadership award at the ESPY Awards in the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center Wednesday, July 15, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Indian laborers plant saplings as part of the government's tree planting campaign in Gadha Village on the outskirts of Prayagraj in northern Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, July 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Participants sprint to the finish line during the teen race during the T-Rex World Championship Races at Emerald Downs, Sunday, July 12, 2026, in Auburn, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Linda Noskova of Czech Republic right, is embraced by Karolina Muchova of Czech Republic, after she won the women's singles final at Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Britain's Kate Princess of Wales walks from Center Court after presenting the trophies for the men's singles final at Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Sunday, July 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Spectators hold up their phones to capture Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland and Shane Lowry of Ireland during their practice round for the British Open Golf championships at Royal Birkdale golf club, in Southport, England, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
A man repairs a guitar string by the light of a flashlight on the Malecon seawall during a blackout in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Palestinian shepherd Thiab Draghme leads his flock of sheep and goats past an Israeli flag placed on a road in the northern Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, Tuesday, June 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Newly appointed U.S. interim Senator Darline Graham Nordone, center, receives applause from Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), left, and others at the conclusion of a news conference, Monday, July 13, 2026, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)
Mourners walk to a gathering commemorating the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Grand Mosque in Tehran, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Smoke rises to the sky following an Israeli military strike in Maghazi refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A view of a burnt area affected by wildfires in Bedar, near Almeria, Spain, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Marrero)
A blaze engulfs trees on the Summit Fire in Llano, CA. Friday, July 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Residents and stray dogs rest on the platform of a railway station to escape the heat in Banda, northern Indian state of Utter Pradesh, Saturday, June 20 , 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
French President Emmanuel Macron, right, speaks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky after the Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees avenue, in Paris, Tuesday, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
The body of a local resident is covered after a Russian air guided bomb hit private houses in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, July 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
A woman stands on a sidewalk after being rescued from flood waters by members of the Boerne Fire Dept. on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, in Boerne, Texas. (AP Photo/Darren Abate)
Volunteers pull a rope to remove a debris from a collapsed building by earthquakes in La Guaira, Venezuela, Sunday, July 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Yolimar Torres, left, cries after she and other family members found her daughter's body, which they recovered themselves from the rubble of a building collapsed by the earthquake in La Guaira, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Fireworks and drones illuminate the Eiffel Tower in Paris, during the eve of Bastille Day celebrations late Monday, July 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
A demonstrator fights back tears at an anti-ICE rally after a man was shot and killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday, July 13, 2026, in Biddeford, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Nick Blanchard leads a small rally in support of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, outside the State House in Augusta, Maine, Wednesday July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
President Donald Trump departs on Marine One after speaking at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
A counter protester yells at a volunteer providing security during a demonstration near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Scarborough, Maine, Tuesday, July 14, 2026, one day after the shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bahrain and Kuwait faced incoming Iranian fire early Friday as U.S. airstrikes expanded to target more bridges in the Islamic Republic.
Both countries, which host U.S. forces, have faced repeated rounds of fire in recent days as an interim deal to try to end the Iran war has collapsed over fighting sparked by activity in the Strait of Hormuz.
In Iran, the state-run IRNA news agency reported Friday that at least three people had been killed in U.S. airstrikes targeting bridges in southern Hormozgan province.
On Thursday, the United States intensified its strikes against Iran on, hitting targets farther north and firing into a ship the U.S. accused of trying to break its naval blockade on the Islamic Republic. Iran retaliated by launching missiles and drones at U.S. allies in the region.
The interim ceasefire agreed to last month has collapsed, and the region has endured days of back-and-forth attacks by the U.S. and Iran as they battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian officials say U.S. strikes have killed more than 35 people and wounded over 300 others.
For the first time in this latest round of violence, strikes also reached into areas around Iran’s capital, Tehran, showing a widening set of targets for the Americans. The U.S. launched a second wave of strikes late Thursday, saying it was aiming to “further degrade” Iran's military capabilities.
When the U.S. and Israel launched the war on Iran on Feb. 28, Tehran effectively closed the strait to shipping traffic, a move that sent the price of oil soaring and gave Iran major leverage in negotiations.
Col. Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesperson for the Iranian military’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, threatened that Iran could launch widespread attacks on “all the infrastructure in the region” if the U.S. acts on President Donald Trump 's repeated warnings that America could hit Iranian bridges and power plants.
“Under no circumstances and in no way will we allow America, as a foreign and extraregional country, to interfere in the Strait of Hormuz,” he added. “This is Iran’s invincible red line.”
Iranian state media said the U.S. strikes Thursday hit around Tehran and Semnan province, home to Iran’s ballistic missile production and space program. State media also reported strikes around the provinces of Hamedan, Hormozgan, Khuzestan, Lorestan, Markazi, and Sistan and Baluchestan, as well as on Iran’s Qeshm island, near the Strait of Hormuz.
Seven people were wounded in a U.S. strike that hit the Allah-Akbar Hill residential neighborhood in the port city of Bandar Abbas, according to Iranian state media. Two more people were wounded in a U.S. attack on the Bandar Abbas railway junction station, state media said.
And just west of Bandar Abbas, witnesses reported that two bridges were struck in a U.S. attack, killing three people and wounding nine others, state media said.
An attack on Greater Tunb Island targeted Iranian defense and missile sites, U.S. Central Command said.
Greater Tunb Island is one of three small rocky islands that sit at the confluence of the Persian Gulf and the strait. The islands — seized in 1971 by Iran from what would become the United Arab Emirates — help the Islamic Republic exert significant control over the strait.
The U.S. military also said it disabled a Curacao-flagged oil tanker as it sailed toward Iran’s main oil export terminal, firing a missile after the ship “ignored multiple warnings.”
Another American strike Wednesday targeted a barracks for Iran’s 388th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, which operates tanks and armored vehicles, in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iranian state television reported. The report said seven were killed in the attack, including conscripts and career soldiers.
Iran retaliated Thursday with missile and drone attacks on Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait, authorities in those countries home to U.S. forces said. There was no immediate acknowledgment of damage or casualties from the attacks.
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi condemned an overnight drone attack in Iraq’s semiautonomous northern Kurdish region. The drone, which authorities said had been intercepted, came during his trip to the U.S. in which he said Iraq would work to disarm non-state armed groups, including those backed by Iran.
A drone separately targeted a tanker Thursday in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Basra in southern Iraq, the state-run INA news agency reported. No casualties were reported.
The latest round of fighting is focused on the Strait of Hormuz, as Iran attacks ships using a U.S.-controlled route through the vital waterway.
Week-to-week cargo shipments through the strait dropped by almost a quarter at the beginning of the month, according to Maritime data firm Lloyd’s List Intelligence. And that was before the recent surge in tit-for-tat attacks.
Given the risks, some oil shippers are transiting the strait with their location devices turned off, but many are just staying put, Lloyd's said Thursday. A growing amount of the region’s energy is being shipped through pipelines, but not nearly enough to offset the decline in shipping through the strait.
U.S. forces have redirected three commercial vessels trying to run the blockade, disabled one that did not comply and boarded another “to ensure full compliance," U.S. Central Command said in a post on X.
“The Strait of Hormuz and the surrounding waters remain free and open, except for vessels attempting to violate America’s steel wall blockade,” the post said.
The U.S. has threatened to reopen the strait by force, but experts say that would require a much bigger armada if not tens of thousands of ground troops.
The price for Brent crude oil, the international standard, traded above $85 a barrel on Thursday, more than 15% higher than the price before the war, but still well below the nearly $120 reached at the height of the conflict.
Rising prices pose a particular challenge to Trump and his Republican Party, which hopes to retain control of Congress in elections in November.
The U.S. reimposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports Wednesday.
“They don’t like what we’re doing, and they do want to settle. We’ll find out whether or not we settle with them, or we just finish it off,” Trump said Wednesday at the U.S. Army War College in Pennsylvania.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday said efforts were still underway to bring the U.S. and Tehran to the negotiating table but acknowledged that was becoming increasingly difficult.
Trump said on social media that Tehran made a goodwill gesture by releasing an American citizen wrongly detained in Iran since 2024. He did not release further details. Human rights lawyer Jared Genser released a statement identifying the detainee as his client Dena Karari, a U.S.-Iranian citizen who runs a nonprofit and was charged with espionage.
Iran did not immediately acknowledge the release, and her case was not publicly known, as sometimes happens with detentions in the Islamic Republic.
Associated Press writers Abby Sewell in Beirut, Mae Anderson in New York and Christopher Weber in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
Vehicles drive by a billboard reading in English, "Who is D nexT one?" and "#lindseygraham," referring to late U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and using the capital letters "D" and "T" in an apparent play on the initials of U.S. President Donald Trump, in downtown Tehran, Iran, Thursday, July 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
A man waves an Iranian flag beneath a billboard reading in English, "Who is D nexT one?" and "#lindseygraham," referring to late U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and using the capital letters "D" and "T" in an apparent play on the initials of U.S. President Donald Trump, in downtown Tehran, Iran, Thursday, July 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
A billboard depicting U.S. President Donald Trump lying on what appears to be a coffin and bearing anti-Trump messages, including the phrase "We Kill Trump," is seen at Islamic Revolution Square in downtown Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Three boys play in the shallow waters of the Strait of Hormuz, as a plume of smoke rises from an explosion in the background, off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Monday, July 13, 2026. (Razieh Poudat/ISNA via AP)