BAGHDAD – Iraqi officials stepped up security Monday ahead of a major Shiite pilgrimage after a mortar attack on a religious procession in Baghdad killed seven people and wounded dozens. The ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities banned motorcycles from Baghdad's streets and dispatched tens of thousands of security forces to guard a Shiite pilgrimage Thursday after coordinated car ...

A roadside bomb struck a minibus packed with pilgrims bound for Iraq's holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala on Friday as authorities deployed more than 40,000 police and soldiers to avert new violence in ...

BAGHDAD - Iraqi officials stepped up security Monday ahead of a major Shiite pilgrimage after a mortar attack on a religious procession in Baghdad killed seven people and wounded dozens.

Iraqi security forces fired shots in the air during a clash among themselves Thursday in the holy Shiite Muslim city of Karbala ahead of one of the world's biggest religious gatherings, security ...

A high number of Iraqi security forces were deployed to protect the annual pilgrimage, expected to culminate Sunday morning. The event usually draws hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from around ...

But with security improving, I took my place Monday on one of more than 100 buses carrying worshipers from the southern holy city of Najaf north to Samarra to commemorate the death of the 9th ...

Other such pilgrimages in Iraq usually take place in the Shiite strongholds of the south. This one became a test of the security services in Baghdad. NPR's Kelly McEvers reports from the Iraqi ...

* Iraqi authorities tighten security for Shi'ite pilgrimage * Bomb strikes minibus carrying pilgrims * Suicide bombing kills 19 overnight By Sami al-Jumaili KERBALA, Iraq, Aug 15 (Reuters) - A ...

Iraqi authorities banned motorcycles from Baghdad's streets and dispatched tens of thousands of security forces to guard a Shiite pilgrimage Thursday after coordinated car bombings targeted proc ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials stepped up security Monday ahead of a major Shiite pilgrimage after a mortar attack on a religious procession in Baghdad killed seven people and wounded dozens ...

BAGHDAD - Iraqi officials stepped up security Monday ahead of a major Shiite pilgrimage after a mortar attack on a religious procession in Baghdad killed seven people and wounded dozens.