Karbala

A fire killed four people in the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala Friday as hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims began gathering to mark Ashura, emergency services said. The blaze erupted in an alleyway near the mausoleum of Imam…
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Abeer Salim Al-Khafaji, the mayor of Karbala, a city southwest of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has been assassinated on Tuesday after being shot with three bullets to the chest. Al-Khafaji was killed by gunmen while supervising a…
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