AP Images top trending social media photos of 2015

Over the last year, thousands of Associated Press photos have been shared from our multiple social media platforms by our followers.  

Below is a look back of some of the top trending photos from our social media posts of 2015.  

APTOPIX Ukraine

A Ukrainian woman embraces her dog in a shelter during the heaviest exchange of artillery fire in the last few days, at Voroshilovsky area, center of Donetsk, Ukraine. Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015. The separatist stronghold, Donetsk, was shaken by intense outgoing and incoming artillery fire as a bitter battle raged for control over the city's airport. Streets in the city, which was home to 1 million people before unrest erupted in spring, were completely deserted and the windows of apartments in the center rattled from incessant rocket and mortar fire. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

APTOPIX Peru Illegal Mining Raid Photo Gallery

Police stand next to a crater created by gold miners during a police operation to eradicate illegal mining in an area known as La Pampa, in Peru's Madre de Dios region, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015. This past week, Peruvian security forces cleared out nearly six square miles in a crater-pocked jungle zone where some 10,000 people lived, blowing up more than one hundred gasoline engines used to extract gold from the sandy soil. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

APTOPIX Nepal Earthquake

A woman is comforted during the funeral of her mother, a victim of Saturday's earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, May 1, 2015. The U.N. said the quake affected 8.1 million people, more than a fourth of Nepal's population of 27.8 million, and that more than 1.4 million needed food assistance. (AP Photo/Bernat Amangue)

APTOPIX Charleston Shooting

Pallbearers release doves over the casket of Ethel Lance during her burial service, Thursday, June 25, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. Lance was one of the nine people killed in the shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston last week. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

APTOPIX US Winter Nationals Swimming

Swimmers warm-up during the U.S. Winter Nationals swimming event Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015, in Federal Way, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

APTOPIX Greece Migrants

A woman and a man kiss as they arrive with others from Turkey to Lesbos island, Greece, on a dinghy, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015. The head of the European Union's executive says 22 of the member states should be forced to accept another 120,000 people in need of international protection who have come toward the continent at high risk through Greece, Italy and Hungary. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

APTOPIX Sea Sparkle

This Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015 photo made with a long exposure shows the glow from a Noctiluca scintillans algal bloom along the seashore in Hong Kong. The luminescence, also called Sea Sparkle, is triggered by farm pollution that can be devastating to marine life and local fisheries, according to University of Georgia oceanographer Samantha Joye. Noctiluca itself does not produce neurotoxins like other similar organisms do. But its role as both prey and predator tends can eventually magnify the accumulation of toxins in the food chain, according to R. Eugene Turner at Louisiana State University. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

APTOPIX Greece Migrants

A migrant speaks on the phone as he standing among railway tracks at the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015. More than 1600 people remain stuck on the Greek side of the border, the Greek authorities said Saturday as Macedonia and other Balkan countries refuse to let them through, considering them economic migrants. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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