Description of boat in accession file calls it a "kufa or native boat of wicker and bitumen." Asphalt also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of ...

A suicide car bomber detonated explosives in a crowd of laborers gathered across the street from a major Shiite shrine in southern Iraq Tuesday, killing at least 53 people and wounding 105 ...

MIAMI, June 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Baba Design House and artist Vincent Havez Abadi, known professionally as Zepha1, have successfully completed their ambitious mural project, "Ode to Freedom ...

Nearly two months of running battles between U.S. troops and radical Shiite militiamen in the southern Iraqi cities of Najaf and Kufa may be over. The U.S.-appointed provincial governor says both ...

A car bombing targeting a mostly Shiite neighborhood of Kufa, Iraq, follows by hours the execution of Saddam Hussein. Two smaller bombings are noted in Baghdad.

In Kufa, a Shi'ite holy city near Najaf, Iraqi officials say a car bomb in a crowded market killed 31 people and wounded at least 58 others.

Thousands of Muslims had gathered at the gold-domed mosque in the city of Kufa early Thursday when it was hit by mortar fire. Local television showed images of scores of dead and wounded, some ...