They break the fast with iftar, an evening meal. Security across Iraq is better than it’s been in years, and this Ramadan brought a much smaller upswing in violence than previous ones did.

Ironically, Mosul residents had a Ramadan much like any other in 2014, when it started just days after IS had proclaimed its “caliphate” spanning tracts of Syria and Iraq.

This is the third Ramadan in a foreign country for a Syrian refugee family living on the outskirts of Dohuk in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In the kitchen of a small three room apartment, eggplant ...

1. The boom of the iftar cannon The end of the day’s fast—as well the initial start of Ramadan—is hailed with a boom. Antique cannons fired by police mark iftar, or breaking the fast, at sunset.

Topline: LAist reporter Yusra Farzan invited colleague Gab Chabran, LAist associate food editor, to experience iftar, the festive meal Muslims eat at night during Ramadan after fasting all day ...