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![Syrian rebels rest after a firefight with government forces near Al Janoudia, Syria. (Jonathan Alpeyrie)](/sites/default/files/styles/article/public/images/poty_13_04.jpg?itok=nroOuz7O)
![Undocumented workers, detained by an anti-migrant group, wait to be processed at a Moscow police station. (Konstantin Salomatin)](/sites/default/files/styles/article/public/images/poty_13_07.jpg?itok=pzLuP6Yj)
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![Donning gas masks and goggles, protestors converge on central Istanbul during a series of summer protests. (Jonathan Lewis)](/sites/default/files/styles/article/public/images/poty_13_12.jpg?itok=qvSH7Ii9)
![Kazakh golden eagles are trained for traditional hunting on the Mongolian steppe. (Keith Mellnick)](/sites/default/files/styles/article/public/images/poty_13_14.jpg?itok=tGBzc24I)
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![A police officer searches a room where several undocumented migrants lived illegally in Moscow. (Konstantin Salomatin)](/sites/default/files/styles/article/public/images/poty_13_23.jpg?itok=OtT0tljf)
![Nakhshun Gasparova shows one of the few things she took with her when she fled the Nagorno Karabakh war. (Anahit Hayrapetyan)](/sites/default/files/styles/article/public/images/poty_13_25.jpg?itok=3EjkhmFX)
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![Orsbai the Kazakh eagle hunter and his golden eagle practice outside the western Mongolian town of Tolbo. (Keith Mellnick)](/sites/default/files/styles/article/public/images/poty_13_28.jpg?itok=fWWG0i5o)
Istanbul's city center exploded in protest during the summer, Syria's civil war continued through the year, the targeting of undocumented workers in Russia intensified, and America's use of the Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan soon comes to an end. These, and hundreds of other stories, were covered by our contributing photojournalists and documentary photographers in 2013. It is through their eyes and by capturing with their cameras that EurasiaNet.org can present unique stories of people, events, and humanity in the South Caucasus, throughout Central Asia, across the Anatolian Plain, and over the rolling steppe of Mongolia. These images are a look back at EurasiaNet's best photo coverage of news and stories from 2013. Although all of the excellent photos and hard work from our photographers cannot be featured on this select gallery of images, you can review all of our posted Photo Essays here and our posted Audio Slideshows here.
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