At least 4.1 million people took part in the 2025 Arbaeen pilgrimage, marking it as the largest gathering of its kind in the ...

Tehran, IRNA – Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi has expressed appreciation to the government and people of Iraq for ...

Iran’s ambassador to Iraq appreciated the efforts made by the Iraqi government and officials for holding Arbaeen ritual.

There’s a lingering fear, whispered in homes and cafés: will Iraq once again become a battleground for someone else’s war?

Majid al-Kareem is poorly equipped for his 500 km pilgrimage by foot through the scorching deserts of southern Iraq. He wears ...

Shiite pilgrims participate in Arbaeen, which marks the end of the 40-day mourning period following Ashoura, in Karbala, Iraq ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - At least 40 Arbaeen pilgrims were injured, and several others killed in a devastating traffic ...

Today, almost 1 400 years after it started, the Day of Arbaeen is remembered by millions of people around the world. Typically, on this day people organise large marches in cities across the world to ...

Of course, this year has proved to be anything but ordinary. Iraq’s religious tourism industry — which, until 2020, was the country’s largest non-oil economic sector — has been decimated.

Iraqi intelligence forces on Sunday captured a “terrorist” network comprising nearly two dozen suspected Islamic State (ISIS) ...

The Arbaeen commemorations carried out in the south of Iraq include an 80km walk from the shrine of the first Shia Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib in Najaf to the shrine of Hussein in Karbala.