Babylon, under Polish guard Most tours focus on the central part of the country and include, in addition to Najaf and Karbala, visits to the shrines at Baghdad's Shiite district of Kadhimiya.

Without overthinking, I contacted Mustafa Naqvi, who organises tours to Iraq ... school and visiting the holy sites in Karbala and Najaf. To this day, both my parents agree that they had the ...

But travel company Wild Frontiers is giving British tourists the opportunituy to explore Iraq, with its new tour, Iraq ... find vibrant holy shrines in Najaf, Karbala and Lalish, the atmospheric ...

Iraqi medical sources said about 48 Iraqi civilians were killed and another 90 wounded in the car-bombing in Najaf, while the explosion that rocked Karbala killed 16 Iraqi civilians and wounded ...

The holy cities of Najaf and Karbala, located deep in the Shia heartland of southern Iraq, traditionally opposed the secularist Baathist rulers in Baghdad. They are home to some of the most ...

Karbala and Najaf, two central Iraqi cities that coalition forces reached by Monday, are the holiest sites of Shiite Islam and important to all Muslims. If battles do break out at either location ...