A group of bus passengers try to cross an area affected by an early-morning landslide that swept away several vehicles in central Colombia. Eight people were injured. (John Jairo Bonilla / EPA)
“I imagine it to be an ocean of people but still somehow a lonely place,” said Hasan Badday before he and other Muslim pilgrims from Southern California boarded buses to Mt. Arafat in the Saudi desert. Millions of Muslims from all over the world started gathering in the plains of Arafat to mark the beginning of the grand pilgrimage known as the Hajj. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Relatives mourn Majid Harazin, Islamic Jihad’s military chief in the Gaza Strip, who was killed this week in an Israeli airstrike. The group has vowed to avenge his death. (Ali Ali / EPA)
An Afghan man casts a shadow on a wall in Kabul ahead of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice that commemorates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son for God. (Massoud Hossaini / AFP)
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Israeli troops evacuate a wounded soldier on the Israeli Gaza border. The day of Israeli air and ground strikes was aimed at stopping rocket salvos from Gaza. (Edi Israel / Associated Press)
Philadelphia Flyers fans Hatt Hershowitz, in dark cap, and Anthony Valentino put a Wayne Gretzky jersey through a fence in hopes of having the Phoenix Coyotes’ coach sign it. (Matt Rourke / Associated Press)
