The Sayyida Zeinab shrine, a sacred site for Shia pilgrims, sees a restrained Ashoura commemoration following regime changes ...

Tradition says the shrine, which draws Shia pilgrims from throughout the Islamic world, is near the place where the last of the 12 Shia imams, Mohammed al-Mahdi, disappeared.

Half an hour’s drive from the Hussein Shrine, one of the three major Shia shrines in southern Iraq, is a camp housing around 7,500 internally displaced people (IDPs), who abandoned their homes ...

The destruction of the golden-domed Shia shrine in Samarra sparked a round of bloody sectarian retaliation in which up to 60 Sunni mosques were attacked and scores of people were killed or injured.

At least 15 people were killed Wednesday in an attack on a key Shia Muslim shrine in southern Iran, state media said, with the Islamic State group claiming the assault. The attack carried out by an ...

Yesterday, ISIS attacked Shia worshippers near the Sayyida Zeinab shrine in a Damascus suburb. At least 60 people in a market and adjacent military office were killed.

Shia pilgrims from Syria and abroad used to flock to the Sayyida Zeinab shrine outside of Damascus every year to commemorate Ashoura, a solemn day marking the 7th-century martyrdom of the Prophet ...

On the day of Tasu'a, which marks the ninth day of mourning month of Muharram, the holy shrine of Imam Reza (AS) is hosting a ...

During Muharram, Shia Muslims observe deep mourning with symbolic elements like Taziya (replica of Imam Hussain's tomb), Alam ...

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is chipping away at Iran’s regional influence. He is urging Syria and Lebanon to join the ...

ISIS also hoisted the banners over the Shia shrine in Guba, al-Imam al-Abbas, and three Shia mosques ... On June 25, the armed militants went door-to-door through the Shia Turkmen homes, ...

In the most detailed study of the refugee crisis in Iraq, the Red Crescent Society on Wednesday said that more than 100,000 people had fled their homes in the two months since the February 22 ...