Images from Kenya make it in World’s Leading International News Agency “The most astonishing pictures of 2013” Collection (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)

Every December, Reuters compiles a gallery of the most astonishing pictures of the year from around the world that made news. This year was no exception as the paper came with a photo cache of the most stunning collection of the defining moments of the past year.

From President Barack Obama’s second-term inauguration and Kenya’s horrific Westgate Mall massacre to the on-going Syrian war, destructive winter storms, deadly fires and twerking, the year of 2013 has seen everything. These are the most dramatic moments and striking imagery from their global coverage of news, entertainment and sport according toReuters.

Here are images from Kenya that made the list;

Kenya shopping mall: An injured woman cries for help after gunmen stormed the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi September 21

Westgate attack: A child runs to safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree at Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi September 21

Torched homes in Kenya: Women embrace in grief after an attack at Kibusu village in the Tana Delta region of the Kenyan coast, January 10, 2013. Armed raiders torched more than a dozen houses in Kenya’s restive Tana River area, the Red Cross said, the latest tit-for-tat attack police say is linked to upcoming elections

Kenya protests: An activist reacts as mock coffins burn outside the Kenyan parliament during a protest dubbed the ‘State Burial-Ballot Revolution’, a demonstration against a legislators’ plan to receive higher bonuses, in Kenya’s capital Nairobi January 16, 2013