BEIRUT — Shiite Muslims Wednesday in Lebanon and Iraq commemorated Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith, while paying ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Every evening for more than a week around nightfall, the Shi'ite Muslim southern suburbs of Beirut have turned into a fortress. Hezbollah, Lebanon's powerful Shi'ite political ...

Ashoura, marks the tenth day of the Muslim month of Muharram, to commemorate the Battle of Karbala when Imam Hussein, a grandson of Prophet Muhammad, was killed in the 7th century.

BEIRUT — Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem reiterated Sunday the militant group’s refusal to lay down its weapons before Israel withdraws from all of southern Lebanon and stops its airstrikes. He ...

A Hezbollah supporter who lost his right hand and a finger on his left hand in a pager attack carried out by Israel on Sept. 17, 2024, beats his chest during a mourning ritual on Ashoura, the ...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Ashoura holiday (all times local): 4:50 p.m. Iraq’s state-run TV channel, citing Iraq’s Health Ministry, says the death toll from a stampede in the Shiit… ...

Iranian and Iraqi Shiite Muslims beat their heads and chests during the Ashoura mourning ritual in downtown Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 28. Millions of Shiite Muslims in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan ...