The World in Photos This Week

The war in Syria spills into Lebanon, a massacre at a mine rocks South Africa, and the festival of Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan.

AUGUST 24, 2012

Iranian women pray to mark the first day of Eid al-Fitr on Aug. 19 in a neighborhood in west Tehran. Muslims around the world celebrated the holiday, which marks the end of the month of Ramadan, the Muslim calendar's ninth and holiest month during which followers are required to abstain from food, drink, and sex from dawn to dusk.

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