U.S. troops pulled out from the center of Karbala Friday and took up positions at the entrances of the holy Shiite city in central Iraq ... of the historic 12th Imam.

But blaming the coalition that overthrew Saddam Hussein for Iraq’s current state is an error, on both moral and factual grounds. It’s not America and its allies that are primarily at fault for ...

Shi'ite Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq and Bangladesh mark the Ashura festival, which commemorates the death of Prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussein in 680AD.