Karbala, where Hussein and his brother Abbas are buried in two enormous mausoleums facing each other, is an epicenter of Shia Islam. Pilgrims freely expressed their suffering, weeping and wailing ...

At least 31 people have been killed in a stampede during commemorations for the Shia holy day of Ashura in the Iraqi city of Karbala, officials say. A health ministry spokesman said another 100 ...

An Iraqi man prays on the tomb of an unknown person at a cemetery in the central city of Karbala. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims are mainly expressed through different religious ...

How tuk-tuks are saving lives in the Iraq protests But a source in Karbala told the BBC that one of the dead was a guard at a nearby Shia shrine who happened to be passing by. The source also said ...

The secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution said various social and cultural theories can be derived from ...

Bashar al-Assad asked the leader of Iraq's paramilitary groups for reinforcements, but so far they are not prepared to fight ...