Muslims around the world welcomed the month of Ramadan with fasting, worship, and crowds in mosques to pray in groups. Markets also prepared by providing foodstuffs for Iftar tables. Muslims in Afghanistan attach great importance to the month of fasting, and Muhammad Naseem, who lives in the capital, Kabul, says that fasting is abstaining from bad deeds and abstaining from gossip, just like abstaining from eating and drinking, throughout the daylight hours. This year, Ramadan falls on the Afghans, at a time when violence in the country has increased with the Taliban launching more attacks on security installations, even though the movement is participating in the sixth round of talks with American officials to end the war in Afghanistan. In Pakistan, as soon as the Ramadan crescent was sighted, Muslims performed prayers in groups, and in Jordan, iftar tables at sunset spread in public spaces, receiving hundreds of the needy, the poor, refugees, and orphans, who find in Tkiyet Um Ali, the non-governmental organization, an initiative that provides them with humanitarian aid and cares for them, considering that this group is less fortunate. In Yemen, people welcomed the month of fasting to the sound of explosions and artillery shelling. For more on Euronews: Learn about the countries that declared Monday the first day of Ramadan Watch...the people of Mosul's preparations for the month of Ramadan