In an extraordinary display of political unity, religious solidarity and public mourning, millions of Iraqis on Wednesday ...
Thousands of mourners gathered at the Holy Shrine of Imam Hussein Shrine in Karbala, Iraq to take part in the funeral ...
More than 30 pilgrims died and dozens were injured Tuesday in a stampede at a major shrine in the Iraqi city of Karbala on the Shiite holy day of Ashura. It is Iraq's deadliest stampede in recent ...
A woman holds a Shiite religious flag and a portrait of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei outside the ...
Majid al-Kareem is poorly equipped for his 500 km pilgrimage by foot through the scorching deserts of southern Iraq. He wears sandals and black clothes that absorb the heat, and carries a wooden broom ...
Shiite Muslim pilgrims flock to the Imam Hussein Shrine in Iraq's holy city of Karbala to mark Ashura, an annual day of mourning that commemorates the death of Prophet Mohammed's grandson, Imam ...