The Al-Abbas Shrine is the mausoleum of Abbas ibn Ali and a mosque, located near the Imam Husayn Mosque in Karbala, Iraq. Abbas was son of Ali ibn Abi Talib and the half-brother of Hasan and Husayn. Read More
At least 319 people have been killed in Iraq since the beginning of the anti-government protests last month, the Iraqi Parliamentary Human Rights Committee said in a report. ...
Fresh clashes between Iraq's security forces and anti-government protesters broke out in Baghdad and a number of Iraqi cities on Friday, despite a call for calm by the country's top Shia leader. ...
The anti-government protests that began across Iraq on October 25 have so far cost the the country's economy more than $6 billion, a spokesman for Prime Minister Adel Abdelmahdi has said. ...
Turkish forces have captured slain Islamic State (IS) chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's sister in northern Syria, a government official confirmed here on Tuesday. ...
The Islamic State terror organisation on Thursday named Abu Ibrahim al-Quraishi as its new leader after it confirmed the death of Abu Bak al-Baghdadi who was killed in a US raid in northern Syria. ...