Hakim, leader of the National Wisdom Movement, delivered a speech at the launch of his election campaign, calling for ...

Sistani, Iraq’s most influential Shia cleric, commands the spiritual following of millions, with his guidance shaping the country’s political, social, and religious life.

In September, a senior Iranian commander made an unannounced visit to one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites in the southern Iraqi city of Kerbala.

Building on the collaboration that resulted in the 2019 Document on Human Fraternity, the Vatican has been working with ...

It took Abu Haider and his relatives several hours to dig up his nephew's grave and exhume the body at a cemetery in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf built especially for COVID-19 victims.

The office of Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said holding any memorial services for the cleric’s late ...

Ayatollah Ahmad Marvi, The Custodian of Astan Quds Razavi, extended condolences to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani following ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Four U.S. Marines drowned when their tank rolled off a bridge into a canal, the military said Friday. Gunmen killed a Sunni preacher and his son in southern Iraq despite an ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq has approved a request to rename the international airport in the Kurdistan Region’s eastern Sulaimani province after prominent Kurdish figure and late Iraqi president ...

The 2006 bombing of the al-Askari shrine in Samarra by an unidentified party ignited a brutal sectarian war in Iraq. It ...

TEHRAN - A memorial service was held in Tehran on Friday for the late wife of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. The event was ...

In a message on Monday, Ayatollah Khamenei prayed to the Almighty God to bestow divine forgiveness and rest her soul in eternal peace. The body of the wife of Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Husseini ...