Ashura is a day of commemoration in Islam and holds great significance for Muslims across the world. It falls on the 10th of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic calendar, carrying spiritual and ...

Hundreds of thousands of Shia Muslims have gathered in the Iraqi city of Karbala for the climax of the religious festival of Ashura, BBC reported. The final processions will take place under tight ...

At least 22 people were killed and 60 others injured here on Monday when a suicide bomber targeted a Muslim Shia Ashura procession, marking a bloody start to the holy day of Muharram. It was the third ...

Five people have been killed and nine wounded in an attack on a Shia gathering hall in eastern Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry says. The killings, in Saihat in Eastern Province on Friday, come two ...

Members of the Shi’ite minorities in Afghanistan and Pakistan have commemorated Ashura, the holiest celebration in their religious calendar, amid heightened security measures against possible ...

Muslims around the world will celebrate the holiday of Ashura, an Islamic holiday that commemorates the martyrdom of Imam Hussein ibn Ali, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at Karbala. The holiday ...

Shi'a observed Ashura in the northwestern Pakistani city of Ashura, amid tightened security measures following a suicide bombing in Balochistan Province the day before. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal) ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Shi'ite men hit the heads of boys with daggers, spilling blood onto Baghdad streets on Wednesday in an annual ritual that has grown ever bigger -- and more controversial -- since ...

A newly formed coalition of Sunni groups will stage a sit-in protest in Islamabad on Sept. 14 to demand the arrest of Shia clerics and eulogists accused of blasphemy. The demand came despite an ...

Ramita Navai has been reporting for years on the rise of Shia militias in Iraq, their links to Iran and allegations of abuses carried out against Sunni civilians. In her latest documentary for ...

At least 31 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in a stampede in the Iraqi city of Karbala, as Shia Muslim worshipers commemorated Ashura on Tuesday, according to Iraq’s health ministry.