See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

Several groups of artists gathered this Wednesday in Dakar to paint a mural and denounce the violence between the armed group ...

Red Cross staff load bodies onto a lorry bound for the morgue of the hospital in the north of Goma. A dinosaur discovered in ...

In our news wrap Tuesday, a rebel group backed by Rwanda has claimed the critical Congo city of Goma, President Trump signed ...

The risk of further eruptions from volcano Nyiragongo led DR Congo authorities to order the evacuation of parts of the city of Goma Thursday, causing an immediate exodus of tens of thousands of ...

Overshadowed by the enormous Nyiragongo volcano, the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo on ... and in the past few days has been further overwhelmed by a volcanic eruption that has ...

The eruption of Mount Nyiragongo, which is considered the most dangerous volcano in Africa, sent lava toward the densely populated city of Goma, in North Kivu province. It destroyed four villages ...

It last erupted in 2015 but has a history of more than 50 different eruptions over the last 800 years. The good news is that because the top of the volcano is still 4,500 feet below the ocean’s ...

Scientists are predicting that a colossal underwater volcano, the Axial Seamount, could be on the verge of eruption. Located around 300 miles off the Oregon coast in the US, this mammoth natural ...

MANILA, Philippines — Taal Volcano erupted in a minor phreatic event early Wednesday morning, January 22. It’s the third eruption from the volcano this year, Phivolcs reported. Two weeks after ...

Scientists are predicting that a colossal underwater volcano, the Axial Seamount, could be on the verge of eruption. Located about 300 miles off the Oregon coast in the US, this mammoth volcano is ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano began a new series of eruptions in December 2024. The world's most active volcano, located in Kilauea, Hawaii, resumed its latest eruption on Wednesday. Volcanic activity ...