Karbala, Iraq is home to one of the largest religious gatherings on Earth, where millions of Shia Muslims travel every year to honor Imam Hussein and experience one of the most spiritual places in the ...

Ashura, one the holiest days for Shias, is the 10th day of the first month of the Arabic calendar. It's a lunar calendar, so it varies every year in relation to Gregorian dates, but this year, it was ...

KARBALA, Iraq — Millions of Shiite Muslims packed the streets of the Iraqi city of Karbala Saturday on their annual pilgrim to mark the death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, who became a ...

KARBALA, Iraq (AP) — Millions of Shiite Muslims packed the streets of the Iraqi city of Karbala Saturday on their annual pilgrim to mark the death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, who became a ...

Expressing religious freedom in a way banned under Saddam Hussein, nearly a million Shiites from around the world gathered in the streets of Karbala on Monday to lash their backs with chains and slice ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of Shiite Muslim pilgrims marked the holy day of Ashoura in the Iraqi city of Karbala on Tuesday. The annual ...

To much of the Western world, the killing of Ali Khamenei will register as a strategic event. A successful strike. A leader was eliminated. The balance of power recalibrated. Across much of the Shia ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Shiite Muslims Wednesday in Lebanon and Iraq commemorated Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith, while paying ...

KARBALA, Iraq — Millions of Shiite Muslims packed the streets of the Iraqi city of Karbala Saturday on their annual pilgrim to mark the death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, who became a ...