The southern Iraqi city of Najaf is the center of the Shiite Muslim faith — the sect's equivalent of the Vatican. About a million pilgrims from Iraq and abroad go to Najaf every year to worship in its ...
There is no city like Najaf, which stands on the edge of the desert a few miles west of the Euphrates in Iraq. It was in nearby Kufa in 661 that Imam Ali, the son-in-law and cousin of the Prophet ...