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Residents of the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ain flee the city in trucks loaded with their belongings, as Turkey continues its assault on Kurdish-controlled areas in northeastern Syria. The offensive has displaced more than 60,000 people in less than a day, according to a war monitor. IMAGES
In Akçakale, civilians say goodbye to former Syrian rebels, supported by Ankara, who are travelling to back into Syria for the Turkish offensive. IMAGES
Images of Turkish fighter jets taking off from a military base in Diyarbakir to carry out strikes against positions and targets of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. According to a statement from the Ministry of Defence, "Turkey carried out air strikes this evening at 23:00 (20:00 GMT) in the regions of Tel Rifat, Cizire and Derik in northern Syria and destroyed 30 targets". Since Sunday evening, Ankara has been carrying out a campaign of drone bombings, which left at least nine people dead on Thursday, against PKK and YPG targets in Syria, in retaliation for the attack that wounded two policemen in Ankara on Sunday. IMAGES
Images show Turkish residents in the city of Gaziantep as they gather for the Friday Prayer at Hadji Veli Mosque, four days after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and neighbouring Syria, killing over 20,000 people. IMAGES
Aerial images of destroyed buildings in the Turkish city of Antakya in the aftermath of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has admitted for the first time that his government's search and rescue effort from this week's devastating earthquake was not going as quickly as hoped. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).