Shia Muslim devotees gather between the shrines ... This year, the events have included prominent displays of Palestinian flags by pilgrims amid the war in Gaza. “The total number of Arbaeen ...

In Lebanon a Shia political movement-cum-militia ... the regime’s founder, as “the flag” of the Islamic Republic. In Iraq, too, protesters have begun turning on the clerics whose fatwas ...

It falls on the 10th of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic calendar, carrying spiritual and historical importance for both Sunni and Shia Muslims. For Sunni Muslims, Ashura is seen as the ...