This was the year that terrorism and refugees dominated global headlines more than ever. Militants escalated their attacks from Syria to the streets of Paris, while over a million people fleeing conflicts poured into Europe. Here are some of the images which captured the top stories of 2015.
2015: The Year In Photos
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Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community wait for bread to bake at Dawodiya camp for internally displaced people in the Kurdish city of Dohuk on January 14, 2015. The Yazidis fled violence between Islamic State jihadists and Peshmerga fighters in the northern town of Sinjar in Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdistan region. Tens of thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority were trapped by IS on Mount Sinjar for days in the searing August heat in a first siege by IS that sparked fears of genocide. (AFP/Safin Hamed)
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Kindergarten Number 9, after it was shelled in Debaltsevo, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, on January 22, 2015. (epa/Anastasia Vlasova)
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Young Iranian Zoroastrians dance in traditional dresses during a ceremony called 'Sade' which comes 50 days before the Iranian New Year. The picture was taken in the Markar garden east of the capital Tehran, Iran, on January 30, 2015. (epa/Abedin Taherkenareh)
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A serviceman from the volunteer battalion 'Aydar' throws a signboard over the gates, as burning tires are extinguished during a protest rally in front of Ukrainian Ministry of Defense in Kyiv, on February 2, 2015. (epa/Roman Pilipey)