Thousands of Iraqi Shi’ites flocked to holy sites on Tuesday to observe a religious rite amid tight security days after a bomber killed 35.
A suicide attack near a Shi’ite shrine killed at least 36 people on Monday in the central Iraqi city of Karbala, a health official said. The attack came as United States…
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki declared ”final war” on al-Qaeda on Friday after dozens of people including a police chief were killed in bomb attacks blamed on the jihadists…
Local authorities began evacuating hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from the Iraqi city of Karbala on Tuesday as a battle raged between Iraqi security forces and gunmen near two…
Nine people were killed, including several civilians, in clashes between United States soldiers and militia fighters in Iraq’s holy Shi’ite city of Karbala on Friday. The clashes…
A suicide car bomber detonated his payload on a crowded street near a revered Shi’ite shrine in the Iraqi city of Karbala on Saturday, killing at least 58 people and wounding…
Two suicide car bombers killed 10 people when they struck checkpoints south of Baghdad on Monday on a road used by thousands of Iraqi Shi’ite pilgrims making their way by foot to…
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shi’ite pilgrims descended on the holy city of Karbala on Monday amid tight security following a spate of bomb attacks against the country’s…
The United States military on Wednesday accused fighters loyal to a rebel cleric of firing on US forces from one of Shia Islam’s holiest shrines. Seven militiamen were killed in…
The United States-led coalition in Iraq was on Friday threatened with suicide attacks as leading Shiite and Sunni clerics warned troops against assaulting cities where armed…
