ISLAMABAD – Thousands of Shiite Muslims have rallied across various parts of Pakistan ahead of tomorrow's religious festival of Ashura, or "Day of Remembrance". The holiest day on the Shiite Muslim ...

KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - The Shi'ite Muslim religious festival of Ashura passed without major violence in Iraq on Sunday, after tight security was deployed to safeguard millions from the bloody ...

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Thousands of Shi'ite Muslims in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, marked the mourning period of Ashura on October 12. Ashura commemorates the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson and rituals include ...

US Envoy Tom Barrack in Beirut speaks about the US using influence to achieve its goals in the region. In early July, Lebanese security forces raided a Beirut neighborhood after Hezbollah-affiliated ...

Masked gunmen killed five people in a mostly Shiite area of eastern Saudi Arabia late on Monday, as the minority community prepared to celebrate the festival of Ashura, police said. Nine people were ...

Iraq Shi'ite Muslim men bleed as they gash their foreheads with swords and beat themselves during the religious festival of Ashura in Najaf, 160km (100 miles) south of Baghdad on November 13, 2013.

Last spring, just weeks after coalition forces had secured Baghdad, the American public was horrified to see hundreds of thousands of liberated Iraqi Shiah marching through the streets of Karbala, ...