Apr 22 Hundreds of Thousands Make Shiite Pilgrimage to Karbala Exercising their new-found religious freedom, hundreds of thousands of Shiites marched to the Holy City of Karbala in Iraq on Tuesday, in a pilgrimage long banned by Saddam Hussein's regime. Continue reading
Apr 10 Shiite Muslim Leader Assassinated in Najaf A prominent exiled Shiite Muslim leader who had just returned to Iraq was reportedly hacked to death by a mob while meeting Thursday with other clerics at a Najaf mosque. Continue reading