Eid and Nowruz celebrations and more

Syrian Kurds walk while carrying Kurdistan flags, with rainbows visible in the background, as they prepare to celebrate the spring festival of Nowruz, in Afrin, Syria, on 20 March 2026.

Muslim children react after the Eid al-Fitr prayer, which marks the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, South Africa, on 21 March 2026.

A young Muslim boy, dressed in a patterned fabric outfit, poses for a group photo after Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, at Unity Stadium in Goma on 20 March 2026.

Iranian women take part in Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, at the Grand Mosque in Tehran on 21 March 2026.

The portraits of a Lebanese family killed in an Israeli strike are placed in front of their destroyed house, in Chaat, Lebanon, on 23 March 2026.

Displaced children from southern Lebanon play under the rain with an umbrella in the courtyard of a school turned into a shelter in Sidon on 20 March 2026.

Security personnel work at the site of damage after Iranian missile barrages struck residential buildings in Arad, amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran, in southern Israel, on 22 March 2026.

A bird flies past vapour trails left in the sky after an Israeli interception attempt in northern Israel, on 20 March 2026, amid the US-Israeli war on Iran.

Aerial view of the Uros Islands in Lake Titicaca, Puno, in southern Peru, taken on 19 March 2026, during an ancestral tribute to water.

Livestock is guided through a flooded area in West Nyakach, Kenya, on 22 March 2026.