NAJAF, Iraq – Wailing and pounding their chests in grief, a dozen women clad in mourning black gathered around a tomb in the massive cemetery in Iraq's holy Shiite city of Najaf. A short distance away ...

NAJAF, IraqNAJAF, Iraq — Pictures of the two brothers stare out, side by side, separated by the gulf of a quarter century. Rahim Jabr died in 1981, a foot soldier in the bloody eight year war with ...

The largest cemetery in the Arab world is located in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf. The cemetery surrounds the Shrine of Imam Ali. It is a sacred site for all Shiites, and many of them bring ...

In Iraq, fierce fighting has broken out in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf as US soldiers backed with tanks have moved onto an ancient cemetery that is considered sacred ground by Shiite Muslims. The ...

NAJAF, Iraq, April 18 -- On the sun-baked sand of one of the world's largest cemeteries, Ali Kadhim Subhi walked today along a row of 10 coffins allocated to the corpses who were once his family.

NAJAF, Iraq – NAJAF, Iraq (AP) — Pictures of the two brothers stare out, side by side, separated by the gulf of a quarter century. Rahim Jabr died in 1981, a foot soldier in the bloody eight year war ...

A car bomb exploded Thursday near the gates of the sacred Shiite Muslim cemetery here, killing at least 12 civilians and injuring dozens in the latest provocative assault on the country’s Shiite ...

The sight of tanks prowling along a cemetery's paths and gunmen crouching behind tombstones would be alarming in any circumstances, but it has a special resonance in Iraq's great burial ground at ...

NAJAF, Iraq—While many of the living are flocking back to Najaf, many of the dead will have to wait for burial. Unexploded ordnance, booby traps and weapons caches left behind from three weeks of ...

The southern Iraqi city of Najaf is the center of the Shiite Muslim faith — the sect's equivalent of the Vatican. About a million pilgrims from Iraq and abroad go to Najaf every year to worship in its ...

NAJAF, Iraq — Wailing and pounding their chests in grief, a dozen women clad in mourning black gathered around a tomb in the massive cemetery in Iraq’s holy Shiite city of Najaf. A short distance away ...