Week in pictures: A look at most compelling images from around the world

President Joe Biden pauses as he listens to a question about the bombings at the Kabul airport that killed at least 12 US service members, from the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Relatives react while mourners carry out the body of Osama Dueij, 32, from his family house, during his funeral in Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. Dueij was shot in the leg on Saturday during a violent demonstration on the northern border between Gaza and Israel and died on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

A Pakistani paramilitary soldier, right, and Taliban fighters stand guard on their respective sides at a border crossing point between Pakistan and Afghanistan, in Torkham, in Khyber district, Pakistan, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. In the current situation in Afghanistan, pedestrian movement is limited at the Torkham border, with only stranded people on both sides and trucks taking goods to Afghanistan passing through this border point. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Fireworks illuminate over National Stadium viewed from Shibuya Sky observation deck during the Opening Ceremony for the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Homeless people gather beside a portrait of Saint Teresa, the founder of the Missionaries of Charity, to collect free food outside the order's headquarters in Kolkata, India, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Thursday marked the birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Mother Teresa, a Catholic nun who spent 45-years serving the poor, the sick, the orphaned, and the dying. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

A US soldier plays guitar for recently evacuated Afghan children at the Ramstein US Air Base, Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Homeowner Maria Covarrubias breaks into tears after seeing her home burn down from the South Fire in Lytle Creek, San Bernardino County, north of Rialto, California, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Wounded Afghans lie on a bed at a hospital after a deadly explosions outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul's airport Thursday, transforming a scene of desperation into one of horror in the waning days of an airlift for those fleeing the Taliban takeover. (AP Photo/Mohammad Asif Khan)

While battling the Caldor fire, firefighters burn vegetation to create a control line along Highway 50 in Eldorado National Forest, California, on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

After ruling the country from 1996 to 2001, by forcing the radical implementation of the Sharia Law, the militant group has promised a relatively flexible way of rule this time. But the world, and several Afghans remain skeptical of these claims. (AP Photo)

Indigenous protesters set fire to a mock coffin representing the death of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and carry a sign that reads in Portuguese "Stop the genocide!" outside Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021. Indigenous groups are demanding the Supreme Court protect their land rights and reserves, asking justices to uphold their territorial rights in a landmark case that could open their lands to outside development by commercial interests. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

German Soldiers arrive with dogs on a plane from Tashkent, Uzbekistan at the Bundeswehr airbase in Wunstorf, Germany, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, after they finished the evacuation mission in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Indigenous protesters shout "Get out Bolsonaro," referring to President Jair Bolsonaro, outside Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Friends of Palestinian teen Omar Abu Neal, who died of a wound he sustained during an anti-Israel protest at the Israel-Gaza border fence last week, mourn during his funeral in Gaza City August 28, 2021. (REUTERS/Suhaib Salem)