NAJAF, Iraq – Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr (search) and his militia had mostly vacated and removed weapons from the shrine in Najaf Friday where they had been holed up during a 2-week ...

For three days, Salon correspondent Phillip Robertson and photographer Thorne Anderson were the only journalists inside the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, Iraq, where up to 2,500 militia men faithful ...

On Friday afternoon Iraq's interior minister claimed his police had taken control of Najaf's Imam Ali shrine and arrested several hundred "lightly armed" fighters.

Some visitors trapped alive under rubble after 'major collapse' in Qattara Imam Ali shrine, west of Karbala governorate, say authorities Muhammad Yahya | 22.08.2022 - Update : 22.08.2022 BAGHDAD ...

The stricken shrine is dedicated to Imam Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed, who according to Shiite tradition stopped there with his army on his way to a battle in AD 657.

The Najaf police official said the bomb at the Imam Ali shrine - the burial place of the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad - was made from the same type of materials used in the Aug. 19 bombing ...

Unknown assailants destroyed the golden dome of one of Shiite Islam’s holiest shrines Wednesday in the northern city of Samarra, triggering widespread street protests by enraged Shiites and r… ...

Iraqi officials say a fire engulfed a newly opened shopping center in eastern Iraq, killing more than 60 people in eastern ...

Iraqi rescue workers search for survivors trapped under the rubble of the Qattarat al-Imam Ali shrine following a landslide, on the outskirts of the holy city of Karbala on August 21, 2022.

The stricken shrine is dedicated to Imam Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed, who according to Shiite tradition stopped there with his army on his way to a battle in AD 657. It is located in a ...

Thousands of U.S. troops and Iraqi soldiers launched a major assault Thursday on militiamen loyal to a radical Shiite cleric in Najaf, with explosions and gunfire echoing around the holy city's ...

The bodies of two pilgrims were pulled from an Iraqi shrine Monday, two days after its partial collapse in a landslide, taking the overall toll to seven dead, rescuers said. Emergency workers were ...