The Iraqi government has been forced to deploy troops after hundreds of thousands of people defied coronavirus restrictions and attempted to visit a shrine sacred to Shiite Muslims, two senior ...

BAGHDAD — A wave of apparently coordinated bombings and shootings rocked Iraq during a major Shiite religious commemoration on Wednesday, killing at least 72 people and wounding more than 250, many of ...

Waves of Shiite pilgrims descended on Karbala Sunday for a festival marking the birth of the 9th century Hidden Imam. A woman making the 50-mile trek from Baghdad was shot to death by men in a passing ...

My last night in Baghdad was spent visiting Imam Musa al-Kadhim, the Imam who predicted my birth. Baba credits Imam Musa for surviving Saddam's regime. Once Baba was in a hospital that was being ...

Shiite pilgrims gathered in Baghdad under tight security on Friday for this weekend's annual tribute to a revered imam, one year on from Iraq's bloodiest day since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Beirut — Paying no attention to the tenets of social distancing, the abaya-shrouded women — no masks or gloves among them — crowded into the Baghdad square surrounding the shrine to Imam Musa Kadhim. ...

Reporting from Baghdad — A suicide bomber attacked a crowd of Shiite Muslim pilgrims in a Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad on Wednesday night, killing at least 33 people and wounding 108, according to ...