Mahashivaratri is celebrated every year on the thirteenth night and fourteenth day of the month of Phalgun in the Hindu calendar which falls in February or March Unlike most Hindu festivals which are ...

A massive dust storm has swept across central Iraq, severely reducing visibility as vehicles navigate the hazardous conditions in Babil province. Sandstorms are common in central and southern Iraq.

Bandits on Wednesday night stormed a mosque in Tudun Malamai community, Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State, killing the Imam who was leading the Isha prayer and abducting at least ten ...

The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, U.S. Central ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s oil ministry on Monday signed a landmark deal with British energy giant BP to develop four key oil fields in Kirkuk. “The Oil Ministry put to ink the contract ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s justice ministry said on Sunday it has begun releasing some of the 67,000 detainees in Iraqi prisons after a recently passed general amnesty law entered ...

However, Yazid did not. Forced to leave Mecca, Imam Hussain set a course for Kufa. A city in Iraq where he had received letters of support from. Yazid predicted this and sent a huge army to block Imam ...

In the months before the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, a Dearborn cleric emerged ... The two-mile procession featured colorful flags in honor of Imam Hussain, the grandson of Islam's prophet, and ...

The first-ever Iraq visit by a pope could've ended disastrously, but a foiled assassination plot has enabled Pope Francis to write about the event in retrospect. "Almost everyone advised me ...

Vadodara University students perform tabla to honour late Ustad Zakir Hussain The students of Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara paid tribute to legendary tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain ...

During his 13-year exile in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf, the Imam formulated his concept of political Islamic doctrine of Vilayat-e-Faqih. The Pahlavi regime in Iran and Saddam regime in Iraq had put ...