These photographs tell some of the stories that defined 2016. (40 PHOTOS)
2016: The Year In Photos
Violence shook the Middle East, migrants made dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean and Europe, and voting in the United Kingdom and the United States produced shock results. These photographs tell some of the stories.
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Protesters hold flares after spray-painting the facade of the Ministry of Justice in the Macedonian capital, Skopje, on May 31. Participants in the long-running antigovernment protests dubbed their movement the Colorful Revolution. (epa/Georgi Licovski)
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Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and their supporters attend a candlelight vigil outside the White House in Washington to honor the victims of a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12. A gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 before he was shot dead by police. (epa/Jim Lo Scalzo)
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Nigel Farage, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP), celebrates in London after British voters cast their ballots in favor of leaving the EU in the Brexit referendum on June 23. (epa/Hannah McKay)
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A woman mourns on July 11 at the Potocari memorial for victims of the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. During the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, the United Nations set aside Srebrenica as a safe haven for civilians. But on July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb troops overran the town and killed about 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the days that followed. (RFE/RL/Midhat Poturovic)