Devotees perform mourning rituals on Arbaeen in Karbala

Devotees and mourners are performing mourning rituals in the central Iraqi holy city of Karbala on the day of Arba'een.

Imam Khomeini was not aggressive at all, but intelligent and knew all political tactics

Peter Shown Latour, the German author

Mourning ceremonies being held to mark Ashura worldwide

Ashura is the culmination of a 10-day annual mourning period in the lunar calendar month of Muharram for Imam Hussein (AS), who was martyred along with his 72 companions in the Battle of Karbala in southern Iraq in 680 AD after fighting courageously for justice against the much larger army of the Umayyad caliph, Yazid.

Top Bahran cleric refutes Shia-Sunni divide, says Israel main issue of Muslim world

Bahrain’s leading cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim says there exists no divide between Shia and Sunni Muslims, but the Islamic world is in fact split into a camp that champions normalization with the Tel Aviv regime and one that adheres to the cause of resistance against Israel and the United States.

Imam Khomeini ’s role was also central in shaping the new political order that emerged from the ...

Imam Khomeini, the greatest figure of 20th century

Francisco Ascowara Badala, head of the Islamic federation

The chain of events that ended in February 1979 with the overthrow of the Pahlavi regime

This world is too insignificant to be worthy of love, Imam Khomeini stressed

Imam Khomeini stressed that this world, with all its superficial splendor and glitter is too insignificant to be worthy of love.