A mortar attack targeted a huge gathering around the main mosque on Kufa on Thursday. The second struck at thousands marching towards Najaf, where resistance fighters loyal to Shia leader Muqtada ...

The small trading community of Dawoodi Bohras single-handedly rebuilt one of Islam’s holiest places of worship — the Great Mosque at Kufa in strife-torn Iraq. The mosque marks the place where Imam Ali ...

With a world-class museum that is the biggest public art space to open on the continent for more than a century, annual art fairs in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and vibrant gallery scenes that have ...

KUFA, July 18: A suicide bomber killed 59 people in a crowded Iraqi market on Tuesday after luring day labourers aboard his minivan with an offer of casual work. The blast in Kufa, near Najaf, was one ...

Iraq's most revered Shiite leader persuaded a rebel cleric yesterday to accept a deal ending a three-week uprising in Najaf, after returning to the city amid bloody clashes that killed at least 74 ...

A car bomb tore through a busy market in the Shiite holy city of Kufa on Tuesday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 70 in an attack sure to further enflame tensions between Iraq’s Sunni and ...