This week in Global Express with Neena Gopal, we turn our focus on a Syria that has all but imploded. Its President Bashar Al Assad has fled the country - some ...

City tour operator stuck in Damascus, Syria, pleads for help; embassy tells mid-day they are arranging a special aircraft to ...

Mourning processions will be taken out in various cities and towns across country to pay homage to martyrs of Karbala. Additional measures have been taken for security of processions.

In my first visit to Syria, which was being torn apart by the Arab Spring, the most startling experience outside the Umayyad ...

The Sayyida Zeinab Shia shrine in south Damascus has been left untouched by Syrian rebels, who have not confronted Iraqi paramilitary groups, Iraqi fighters told Middle East Eye. Iraqi Shia ...

THIRTY-THREE years is a long time to devote to writing a book; but for Satnarine Balkaransingh, the journey to Hosay ...

The Shiat Ali, or Partisans of Ali, came to be known as Shia, or Shiites ... pilgrimage to the shrine of Ali’s son Hussein, in Karbala. After Saddam took power in 1979, Shiite clerics were ...

Muharram, a significant Shia Muslim festival ... and his companions at the Battle of Karbala. A unique tradition in Assam during Muharram is "tabazadi," where participants strike their chests ...