BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces wearing masks and black plainclothes opened fire at protesters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala on Tuesday, killing 18 people and wounding hundreds, security ...

In the physically unequal Battle of Karbala, remembered ever after as the moral victory of the Shias, a Brahmin of the gotra, or ancestral line, of Rishi Bharadwaja—the father of Dronacharya and ...

Aleem Maqbool joined pilgrims in Karbala for a rare look inside the mosque It is a privilege to do this work. I kept thinking that as we travelled along the road from Baghdad, to the city of Karbala.

Saddam Hussein, who claimed descent from the Prophet, put his own pictures on the shrines. And many Shia clerics from the holy cities were murdered by the ruling regime. Karbala, 80 kilometres (50 ...

Karbala, Iraq, July 8 ... Check out the story and see additional photos here.

This year’s Arba’een commemorations in Karbala have shattered records, with 21.48 million Muslims from across the globe gathering in the holy city. The pilgrimage, marking the 40th day after ...