KARACHI: Out in the distance, the alam faltered. But Abbas, the alamdaar (standard-bearer), would ensure that his body hit the ground before the alam did. But it never came crashing down. That defiant ...

Karbala’s Youth and Sports Directorate organizes a marathon with hundreds of participants, offering financial prizes up to 3 million dinars.

Karbala governor Nassif al-Khattabi on Tuesday denied reports about deaths among Iraqi protesters in the southern province. Media reports earlier said at least 20 people had been killed and hundreds ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of pilgrims are in the Iraqi city of Karbala for Ashoura, the holy day on which Shiite Muslims commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet ...

Iraq said Sunday that it had foiled a plot by the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group to target Shia pilgrims in the central city of Karbala. In a statement carried by the state news agency INA, the Karbala ...

A local news source in the province of Karbala reported that a massive fire broke out in a commercial center in Bab Al Khan Area, the holy shrine city of Karbala. Civil defense teams were dispatched ...

The memory of the Battle of Karbala is as old as time itself. According to a hadith in Bihar Al-Anwar [a comprehensive collection of traditions or ahadith compiled by Shia scholar Mohammad-Baqer ...

Reporting from Karbala, Iraq — When millions of Shiite Muslim pilgrims descended last month on the shrine with twin gold domes in this holy city, many Iraqis expected sectarian fighting to erupt.

Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims marched to this city's holy shrine Tuesday to mark the death of one of their most revered saints, chanting, swaying, even cutting their bodies in an emotional ...