Fighters from the former Al-Nusra Front—renamed Fateh al-Sham Front after breaking from Al-Qaeda—south of Aleppo on August 6, 2016. October 10 marks the anniversary of the Battle of Karbala, which ...

In May 2015, the Iranian Committee to Find Missing Soldiers of the Iran-Iraq War announced the discovery—and imminent return—of 270 bodies in the southern Iraqi towns of Abu Falous, Al-Faw, and ...

Forty-one Iraqis were killed in bombings today in the city of Karbala as Shia pilgrims gathered for the last day of a religious festival in the holy city. The mode of the attack is still unclear. Some ...

SOUTH OF KARBALA, Iraq—The first decisive battle of the war in Iraq may be coming in a place called the Karbala Gap. After days of pounding the Medina Division of Iraq's Republican Guard with airpower ...

Iraqi Shiite pilgrims have descended on the holy city of Karbala in their hundreds of thousands, as they prepare to celebrate a religious festival under a threat of war declared by Sunni Arab radicals ...

2004-04-10 04:00:00 PDT Karbala, Iraq-- Fela Abdel Hassen sat exhausted on a rug by the roadside, dabbing gingerly at a pair of bandaged, bleeding feet. After 36 hours on the highway, walking in just ...

1920-1921 Having ended the Ottoman rule of the region, Great Britain establishes the nation of Iraq by uniting the three provinces of Mosul, Baghdad, and Al-Basrah. The British grant the throne of the ...

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 ...

WIDE ANGLE travels with a busload of Shia pilgrims as they make their way from Iran to Iraq to visit Karbala, among the holiest sites in Shia Islam. Pilgrims travel to Karbala year-round to honor ...