Topic: Najaf
A half-billion-dollar effort to showcase Iraq's holiest Shiite city to the world is coming down to the wire as many contracts remain unsigned and funds are being hastily re-allocated.Preparations for Najaf to become the Arab world's Islamic Capital of ...
The holy Shiite city of Najaf in central Iraq, home to the shrine of a revered cleric, is in the midst of a hotel building boom in a bid to dramatically ramp up the number of visiting pilgrims.While thousands of mostly ...
Known across the region for its fine texture, the Najafi abaya is worn by all manner of VIPs from officials to oil-rich sheikhs. But the men who produce the hand-made cloth, inheritors of a generations-old trade, are increasingly going out of business ...
NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Anti-U.S. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's security detail has a disciplined quality far removed from his old Mehdi Army militia, hinting at his evolution toward the mainstream that could help stabilize Iraq.Sadr, who led two uprisings ...
Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr returned to Iraq on Wednesday to a hero's welcome in his stronghold of Najaf after nearly four years outside the country, an AFP correspondent said."Moqtada al-Sadr has returned to his home in Najaf. He arrived ...
Two buses collided in southern Iraq on Friday, killing 17 people, including 14 Iranian pilgrims on their way to the Shiite shrine city of Najaf, police and doctors said."We received 17 bodies," said Dr Ali al-Shammari at Hilla hospital in Babil ...
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 ...
The explosion occurred in the northern part of the city, the officials said.Some 1,500 pilgrims a day from neighbouring Iran visit Shiite shrines in Iraq, mainly in the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala.
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Nauha and Marsia are the literary wailing by the Shias, describing of the atrocities of the Bani Umayyad in laments, which the Yazeedi tyrants in Karbala, Koofa and Shyam unleashed on the progenies of Imam Husain Als. When a scene of Karbala ...
French energy infrastructure firm Alstom on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with Iraq to build a power plant in southern Iraq, which is suffering a severe electricity shortfall.It is also set to renovate an existing power plant in the holy ...
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