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Eid and Nowruz celebrations and more
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP
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.
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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.
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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.
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Aerial view of the Uros Islands in Lake Titicaca, Puno, in southern Peru, taken on 19 March 2026, during an ancestral tribute to water.
BRIAN ONGORO / AFP
Livestock is guided through a flooded area in West Nyakach, Kenya, on 22 March 2026.
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