NAJAF, Iraq — Car bombs tore through a Najaf funeral procession and Karbala’s main bus station Sunday, killing at least 60 people and wounding more than 120 in the two Shiite holy cities. In Baghdad, ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 14 Fighting erupted Friday in Najaf when American tank troops and soldiers battled militiamen loyal to the rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr in a centuries-old cemetery near the ...

y friend looked at me incredulously: “Let me understand this correctly – your trip to Iraq in November 2021 was the reason you missed your son’s graduation in June 2022?” But it was true. As a UK ...

Every year, Shiite Muslims mark the death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussain with a mourning period that lasts a total of 50 days. Ashura, the tenth day of the Islamic month of Muharram, ...

U.S. forces battled Moqtada Sadr’s militia at a mosque in the holy city of Karbala on Tuesday as leaders in Najaf sought to broker an agreement between the rebel cleric and the military. Hundreds of ...

Karbala and Najaf, two central Iraqi cities that coalition forces reached by Monday, are the holiest sites of Shiite Islam and important to all Muslims. If battles do break out at either location, ...