This has impacted Karbala in particular, says Gilgawi, which is already located in a hot plane area of Iraq, and has seen temperatures increase by 1.6°C (2.88°F) from 1979 to 2019 ...

(photo credit: ALAA AL-MARJANI/REUTERS) The next president of the United States must be prepared to face the challenge of Karbala. While it is the name of a town today in Central Iraq, Karbala was ...

For Shia Muslims, Arbaeen is a significant religious event that brings hundreds of thousands of the faithful to the streets of the holy city of Karbala in Iraq. Literally meaning '40', the event ...

Irfan Ali Gangjee is one of the millions of Shia Muslims who have travelled on foot for days to reach the holy city of Karbala in Iraq to participate in Arbaeen – one of the largest annual ...

They have to raise their heads. They have a right to represent Iraq.” Now, on the road to Karbala, I was watching the Shiites assert one of those rights: the freedom to celebrate one of their ...

According to Iranian officials, almost 2.2 million Iranian Shias crossed the border on Wednesday, converging on Iraq’s city of Karbala to mark the occasion. A total of 30,000 Iraqi policemen ...

FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu launches $39M Green Climate Fund project in Iraq for climate adaptation in south. Visits Karbala, Kurdistan Region for agricultural talks.

Karbala, where Hussein and his brother Abbas ... He also hailed the volunteers from across Iraq’s provinces who preserve the tradition of setting up and financing “mawakeb,” stands that ...

Shiite Muslim devotees at the tomb of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Mohammed's grandson, in Iraq's central holy city of Karbala — Hussein Faleh Millions of Shiite Muslim pilgrims massed at the ...

In the physically unequal Battle of Karbala, remembered ever after as the moral victory of the Shias, a Brahmin of the gotra, or ancestral line, of Rishi Bharadwaja—the father of Dronacharya and ...