Addressing reports suggesting an attempted rescue operation for a kidnapped individual, al-Araji dismissed them as baseless ...

“The original people of Najaf are being displaced to other areas, and these people are coming in their place. The Iraqi government must take immediate measures to get them out of Iraq.” Osama ...

A short drive south of Babylon and 90 mi/145 km south of Baghdad, the town of Najaf, along with Karbala, is one of the most sacred Shiite Muslim towns in the world.

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Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Bashir Al-Najafi received the Italian Ambassador to Iraq, Mr. Nicolo Fontana, at his central office in ...

A special envoy of the International Federation of the Twelver Shia Khojas, headed by Hajj Safdar Jafar, has met with senior ...

Iraq has lost 95 percent of the fish in its marshes and nearly 30 percent of its buffalos due to climate change, the head of ...