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Tens of thousands of Afghans have swelled the ranks of those seeking refuge in Europe this year. Second only to Syrians, Afghans represent the next largest group – 13 percent – of those making the journey so far in 2015.

A street lined with rubble and destroyed buildings in the Old City area of Homs, Syria.

A Syrian woman cries in relief as she embraces her three young children after a very rough crossing of the Aegean from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos.

Refugees wait to take a bus in Hungary right after crossing the border from Serbia in order to go to the pre-registration center. Thousands of refugees fleeing war and persecution, mostly in Syria, cross this border every day.

Faj Attan neighbourhood in Sana’a, Yemen, is regularly hit by airstrikes. Most of the population has left.

Special Representative and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Bernardino León.

A boat from Yemen docks at the port of Bossaso in the Puntland of Somalia, the main entry point for people arriving from Yemen.

A father cradling his sick child waits in the rain to board a bus to a police pre-registration centre in Hungary.

Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov.

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’s (FYROM) authorities presented a completed money laundering and terrorist financing national risk assessment (NRA) at a workshop organized by the OSCE and the World Bank on 11 September in Skopje.