Landslide hits Qattarat al-Imam Ali shrine on the outskirts of the holy city of Kerbala Landslide hits Qattarat al-Imam Ali shrine on the outskirts of the holy city of Kerbala KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) ...

Emergency services and rescue workers are seen at Qattarat al-Imam Ali shrine near Karbala, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Several people died and others were trapped under the rubble after a mound ...

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Editor's note: During the most recent uprising in Najaf, Iraq, photojournalist Thorne Anderson, who received a master's degree from the MU School of Journalism in 1997, spent three days inside the ...

Rescuers used a backhoe and bulldozer to search the rubble for victims at Qattarat al-Imam Ali shrine in Karbala, Iraq - Copyright AFP Roslan RAHMAN Rescuers used a ...

There was no immediate confirmation from al-Sadr's office of the acceptance, which came shortly after Iraq's defense minister threatened to raid the Imam Ali Shrine in a final push to root out the ...

NAJAF, Iraq, Aug. 30 -- Ali Abbas said he wanted to shake the hand of the famous preacher who had delivered the sermon at Friday prayers in the Imam Ali shrine here. Abbas, 20, a laborer, turned to ...

The Iraqi Interior Ministry announced Friday that police seized control of the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf and arrested 400 members of militias loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, but the U.S ...

U.S. troops and Iraqi forces storm into the center of Najaf in what Marine commanders are calling a final push to crush a rebellion by supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The cleric ...

BAGHDAD — A landslide collapsed the ceiling of a Shiite shrine in central Iraq over the weekend and killed at least seven people, including a child, officials said Monday as rescuers continued to ...

Rescuers used a backhoe and bulldozer to search the rubble for victims at Qattarat al-Imam Ali shrine in Karbala, Iraq — Mohammed SAWAF Rescue workers searched through the rubble of a Shiite Muslim ...