Sayyida Zeinab, a significant site for Shiite pilgrims, has previously been targeted by IS. The Sunni group, which considers ...

Shi'ite Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq and Bangladesh mark the Ashura festival, which commemorates the death of Prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussein in 680AD.

Intelligence officials in Syria's new de facto government thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a ...

For Shias, Ashura is a day of mourning which commemorates the martyrdom of the Imam al-Husayn. This is considered to be the defining event in Shia history. But for Sunnis, Ashura is a fasting day ...

Worshippers had gathered there on the eve of the Shia holy day of Ashura. The police statement expressed condolences to the victims' families and said an investigation into the circumstances of ...