NEAR KARBALA, Iraq – U.S. soldiers pushing toward Baghdad advanced through a gap west of Karbala on Wednesday after a night-long bombardment of the strategic city and the first major ground battle ...

KARBALA, Iraq - U.S. tanks, helicopters and jets attacked fighters loyal to a radical Shiite cleric in this holy city Wednesday, partially destroying a mosque used by insurgents and setting seven ...

Addresses crowds on Arbaeen, Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem said, "We are on the path of salvation, thanks to the jihad and revolution of Imam Hussein (a.s.) People at every milestone ...

KARBALA, Iraq—For almost a year, soldiers from the 37th Armored Regiment's 1st Battalion fixed schools, hunted insurgents and dodged roadside bombs in a relatively quiet section of Baghdad. Then, as ...

SOUTH OF KARBALA, Iraq—The first decisive battle of the war in Iraq may be coming in a place called the Karbala Gap. After days of pounding the Medina Division of Iraq's Republican Guard with airpower ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of pilgrims are in the Iraqi city of Karbala for Ashoura, the holy day on which Shiite Muslims commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet ...

WASHINGTON – In the most important battle of the war so far, U.S. troops today ringed Iraqi forces in the key city of Karbala, and this morning were rolling onward toward Baghdad, less than 50 miles ...

Fighters from the former Al-Nusra Front—renamed Fateh al-Sham Front after breaking from Al-Qaeda—south of Aleppo on August 6, 2016. October 10 marks the anniversary of the Battle of Karbala, which ...