A woman covers her face as she stands along the side of a road on the outskirts of the town of Tal Tamr near the Syrian Kurdish town of Ras al-Ain along the border with Turkey in the northeastern Hassakeh province on October 16, 2019, with the smoke plumes of tire fires billowing in the background to decrease visibility for Turkish warplanes that are part of operation “Peace Spring”. (Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP Photo)





A girl walks near a truck mounted with a weapon in the border town of Tal Abyad, Syria, October 17, 2019. (Photo by Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)





Turkey-backed Syrian rebel fighters gesture as they stand at a back of a truck in the border town of Tal Abyad, Syria, October 17, 2019. (Photo by Khalil Ashawi/Reuters)





Demonstrators walk under an Estelada (Catalan separatist flag) as they march on Diagonal Avenue during Catalonia's general strike in Barcelona, Spain, October 18, 2019. (Photo by Albert Gea/Reuters)





A protestors uses a sling during clashes with police in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, October 18, 2019.The Catalan regional capital is bracing for a fifth day of protests over the conviction of a dozen Catalan independence leaders. Five marches of tens of thousands from inland towns are converging in Barcelona's center for a mass protest. (Photo by Bernat Armangue/AP Photo)





Spanish police stand outside a police station surrounded of objects thrown by pro-independence demonstrators in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, October 18, 2019. Various flights into and out of the region are cancelled Friday due to a general strike called by pro-independence unions and five marches of tens of thousands from inland towns are expected converge in Barcelona's center on Friday afternoon for a mass protest with students to and workers who are on strike. (Photo by Bernat Armangue/AP Photo)





Paramedics attend a protestor during clashes with police in Barcelona, Spain, early Friday, October 18, 2019. Catalonia's separatist leader vowed Thursday to hold a new vote to secede from Spain in less than two years as the embattled northeastern region grapples with a wave of violence that has tarnished a movement proud of its peaceful activism. (Photo by Bernat Armangue/AP Photo)





Young demonstrators gather following a week of protests over the jail sentences given to separatist politicians by Spain’s Supreme Court, on October 18, 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. Nine Catalan pro-independence leaders were sentenced earlier this week to varying jail terms for sedition, in relation to the 2017 independence referendum. (Photo by Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)





A man wearing a mask attends an anti-government protest in Hong Kong, China, October 18, 2019. (Photo by Umit Bektas/Reuters)





Demonstrators take a selfie in front of burning tires during a protest targeting the government over an economic crisis, at Barja area blocking off a main road leading from southern Lebanon to Beirut, October 18, 2019. (Photo by Ali Hashisho/Reuters)





Lebanese army soldier holds a white rose as people protest over deteriorating economic situation, in the port city of Sidon, Lebanon, October 18, 2019. (Photo by Ali Hashisho/Reuters)





A demonstrator holds his dog as smoke rises during a protest over the deteriorating economic situation in Jdeideh, Lebanon, October 18, 2019. (Photo by Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)





An Israeli border policeman scuffles with demonstrators during a Palestinian protest against Jewish settlements in Turmus Ayya village near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 17, 2019. (Photo by Mohamad Torokman/Reuters)





Israelis sit by as a man poses while jumping into the pool of the natural water spring of Ein al-Faraah near the Palestinian village of Doura, west of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, during the Jewish religious holiday of Sukkot (Feast of the Tabernacles) on October 17, 2019. (Photo by Hazem Bader/AFP Photo)





Visitors watch a tournament of robot footballers at the 7th edition of the Maker Faire 2019, the greatest European event on innovation, on October 18, 2019 in Rome. “RoboCup”, a triangular tournament of robot footballers involving the teams of Rome's Sapienza University and two other universities from Switzerland and Germany as protagonists. (Photo by Andreas Solaro/AFP Photo)