Ramzan mubarak! Here's how it's being observed across the world
Muslims across the world are fasting from morning to evening during the holy month of Ramadan.
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Volunteers prepare food plates for poor people to break their fast at a free food distribution point during the Islamic holy month of Ramzan in Islamabad on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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A Bangladeshi Muslim man prays at a Mosque during Ramzan in Dhaka on Wednesday. Muslims throughout the world are marking the holy month of Ramzan, during which they fast from dawn till dusk. (AP Photo/AM Ahad)
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Indian Muslims break their day long fast at the Hazrat Makhdoom Syed Peer Baba Mazar Mosque in Allahabad on Wednesday. (AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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Afghan Muslim devotees read verses of the Quran in a mosque during Itikaf, the last ten days of the Islamic fasting month of Ramzan, in Kabul on Wednesday. The last ten days of Ramzan, known as Itikaf, are very important according to many Muslims due to the belief that Prophet Muhammad used to exert himself even more in worship, hoping to draw himself closer to God. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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Palestinian youth pray as clashes with Israeli border police broke at al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on Tuesday. Police spokesman said rocks and other objects were hurled toward police forces Jewish worshippers in a nearby plaza. As a result, police decided to close access to Jewish worshippers and other visitors for the remainder of the week to prevent tensions with Muslim worshippers until Ramzan is over. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray early in the morning at the Hazratbal shrine, during special prayers to observe the Martyr Day of Hazrat Ali, cousin of the Prophet Muhammad, in Srinagar on Monday. The festival coincides with the 21st day of the Islamic holy month Ramzan. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, centre, sits with Syrian troops as they break the Ramzan fast during his visit to the front line in the Damascus suburb of Marj al-Sultan, Syria. (SANA via AP)


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