A clown entertains Palestinians on the first day of Eid al-Adha in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Islam’s third most holy site, in the Old City of Jerusalem. (AFP)

Muslim women attend the Eid al-Adha morning prayer at Dubai’s main mosque, as Muslims across the globe celebrated the first day of the Feast of Sacrifice which commemorates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son for God and marks the end of the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. (AFP)

Palestinian children ride on a toy train overlooking the Mediterranean, while celebrating during the third day of the Muslim religious festival of Eid al-Adha, in the Deir al-Balah refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip. (AFP)

Iraqis walk around the citadel of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, as people celebrate the Muslim religious festival of Eid al-Adha. (AFP)

Muslim pilgrims pray outside Namirah Mosque at Mount Arafat, also known as Jabal al-Rahma (Mount of Mercy), southeast of the Saudi holy city of Mecca, as the climax of the Hajj pilgrimage approaches. (AFP)

Men, women, and children sit in a joy ride at an amusement park as people celebrate during the third day of the Muslim religious festival of Eid al-Adha, in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. (AFP)

A boy covered with burnt oil poses during the closing of the ten-day Catholic celebration of the Santo Domingo de Guzman festival in Managua, Nicaragua. (AFP)

A man rides a motorcycle with a woman and children through a street market in the predominantly-Kurdish northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country was running out of patience with floundering US efforts to set up a buffer zone along its southern border in northeastern Syria. (AFP)

Yemenis walk in an amusement park as people celebrate during the third day of the Muslim religious festival of Eid al-Adha, in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. (AFP)