In pictures: Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Fitr

After a month of fasting during the month of Ramadan, Muslims welcome the new Islamic month of Shawwal with special prayers on the day of Eid al-Fitr. Here a young boy stands with Yemeni worshippers at a mosque in Sanaa (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

Eid prayers are often offered outdoors, if weather conditions allow. Here, families are seen praying outside the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul (Bulent Kilic/AFP)

Children are given sweets, money and toys as gifts to celebrate the festivities. Young boys are seen here looking at the toys on offer outside the al-Azhar Mosque in the Egyptian capital Cairo (Khaled Dsouki/AFP)

Children dressed in their finest clothes play amongst the rubble at a makeshift playground in the city of Binnish in Syria's Idlib governate (Ahmed Fallaha/MEE)

Muslims in the Middle East make up a minority of the total Muslim population. The largest communities are found in South Asia and South East Asia. Here, sweet pastries and biscuits are laid out at a stall in the Afghan capital of Kabul in preparation for Eid festivities (Wakil Kosar/AFP)

At this Moroccan bakery in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, customers line up to buy sweet treats for friends and family (Robin Utrecht/ANP/AFP)

In Syria's Idlib province, family members mourn departed loved ones. As part of Eid tradition, Muslims visit their graves on the first day of Eid al-Fitr after morning prayers (Moawia Atrash/MEE)

Palestinian Muslim men exchange Eid wishes in front of a building destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia. Since Sunday, the besieged Palestinian territory has been subject to intense bombardment by the Israeli military, with scores killed and hundreds wounded (Mahmud Hams/AFP)