AP Photo supervisor Maya Alleruzzo on the Middle East

AP Photo supervisor Maya Alleruzzo on the Middle East regional desk in Cairo was monitoring the usual steady flow of photos of death and destruction when she was jolted from her seat by this picture filed by Jaber al-Helo, a freelancer based in Najaf, Iraq.

Photo Caption: Mahmoud Abdel Rahman carries the dead body of his eleven-month old grandson, Latif, who was killed along with his mother on Monday when their house collapsed in a car bomb attack, while mourners carry the coffin of the mother, Hasnah Abdel Rasul, during their funeral in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. Al-Qaida's local franchise in Iraq has claimed responsibility for carrying out a deadly string of car bombings in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)