Topic: Karbala

Kabul attack kills up to 20, death toll seen rising

KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide attack on a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in Kabul on Tuesday killed up to 20 people and injured five, a senior police official said, adding that the death toll was expected to rise.Hundreds of people had gathered at ...

Three blasts kill 12 in Iraq's Kerbala

KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - Three blasts in the Iraqi city of Kerbala killed at least 12 people and wounded 30 more as they lined up outside a local government building, police said on Sunday.A bomb in a car exploded outside the offices ...

Bin Laden's global campaign leaves world bloodied

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - There might be little to link New York and Tora Bora, Bali and Madrid, London and the holy shrines of Kerbala were it not for Osama bin Laden.Since the 1990s, and attacks in the United States, Saudi Arabia and ...
A massive car bomb ripped through a funeral ceremony in a Shiite district of Baghdad on Thursday, killing 48 people in Iraq's bloodiest day in more than two months.The blast was the deadliest in a series of bombings Thursday that claimed 53 ...

Thousands defy violence, mark Muslim rite in Iraq

KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims marched and beat their heads and chests in ritualistic mourning in a major rite in Iraq's holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala on Tuesday, after attacks that killed dozens in recent days.The Arbain event, ...

Triple attacks on Shiite pilgrims in Iraq kill 12

Three car bombs ripped through crowds near Iraq's shrine city of Karbala on Monday, killing 12 people and wounding dozens in fresh attacks on pilgrims arriving for religious rituals."There were three car bomb explosions, two at 8:30 AM (05:30 GMT) and another ...

U.S. and Canada walkers join Iraq pilgrimage for charity

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Among the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims streaming into Iraq's holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala on Saturday, Michael Symons' blonde goatee and bald white head wrapped in a headscarf stood out like a beacon.The Canadian sales manager was ...

50 dead in Iraq as suicide blasts rock holy city

A spate of blasts across Iraq on Thursday killed at least 50 people, most of them in twin suicide car bombings in the Shiite Muslim holy city of Karbala, the third major attack in as many days.The attacks mostly targeted pilgrims marking ...

Female Suicide Bomber Karbala

A female suicide bomber attacked and killed at least 30 people on March 17, 2008 in the holy city of Karbala in central Iraq .

Car bombs in Shiite south Iraq kill at least 28

The attacks came as Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish political rivals bickering over an elusive power-sharing deal that has left Iraq without a new government for eight months held a first day of all-party talks without a breakthrough.Twin bombings in the Shiite holy ...
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