NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - With its sweeping highway, solar-powered street lights and plethora of hotels, the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf is a beacon for investment in Iraq, outshining other areas where ...

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 ...

The story of Iraq is written on the walls of the Prophet’s Street. Staring down on the crowds of Najaf are portraits of men killed under 35 years of Baath Party rule. They are clergy, their families ...

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Pope Francis and Iraq's top Shiite cleric delivered a powerful message of peaceful coexistence Saturday, urging Muslims in the war-weary Arab nation to embrace Iraq's long-beleaguered Christian ...

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki made the inaugural flight to a new airport in the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf on Sunday, which officials hope will usher in a boom in ...

An aerial view of Iraqis, carrying posters of anti-government protesters killed in 2019, at a march on the Zeitoun bridge in Iraq's southern city of Nasiriyah on ...