according to local climate group Green Karbala. Over the years, much of the rich agricultural land that used to surround Karbala city has disappeared, leaving no fertile soil to capture moisture ...

Despite the deployment of thousands of additional U.S. and Iraqi troops, bombers continue to get past checkpoints and even infiltrate the capital’s fortified Green Zone, where U.S. and Iraqi ...

As millions of pilgrims descend on the Iraqi city of Karbala for an annual event called ... young families and respected elders unite under red, green, blue and black flags, bearing the faces ...

Two more Iraqi protesters have been killed in renewed clashes in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, a flashpoint ... have been trying to reach the Green Zone that is located on the other side ...

Expressing religious freedom in a way banned under Saddam Hussein, nearly a million Shiites from around the world gathered in the streets of Karbala ... city. The men carry colored flags; green ...

There are other signal colors, too: green is the colour of Muhammad ... 31 killed and 100 injured in a stampede. Inside the city of Karbala, crowds build and the volume ramps up as ancient ...

BAGHDAD — Dozens of Iraqi protesters attacked the Iranian consulate in the Shiite holy city of Karbala on Sunday ... leading to the heavily fortified Green Zone, the headquarters of the ...

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 ...

Hussein's very small army was surrounded at Karbala on the edge of the desert and he was killed in battle. His tomb, with a gilded dome and three minarets, is the central building in the city and a ...

AFP Baghdad: Two more Iraqi protesters have been killed in renewed clashes in the Shiite holy city of Karbala ... have been trying to reach the Green Zone that is located on the other side ...