Iraqi demonstrators gather as flames start consuming Iran's consulate in the southern Iraqi Shiite holy city of Najaf on November 27 two months into...
Shiite cleric Nuri al-Saedi addresses his students during a lesson in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Najaf as religious schools reopen after more...
Shi'ite Muslims protest near the local headquarters of the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority July 20, 2003 in Najaf, Iraq. Over 10,000 angry...
Iraqi Grand Ayatollah Bashir Hussein Najafi attends a religious ceremony to commemorate the death anniversary of Fatima, daughter of Prophet...
Shiite cleric walks down a street in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Najaf as religious schools reopen after more than two years amid the Covid-19...
Shiite Muslims walk in the courtyard of the Imam Ali Ibn Abi Taleb shrine in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf on January 23, 2018.
Shiite Muslims participate in a collective Koran reading session during the month of Ramadan, at the Imam Ali Ibn Abi Taleb shrine in the Iraqi holy...
Column of U.S. Army Stryker light amored vehicles on reconnaissance operations push out from forward operating base Duke Duke April 14, 2004 about 12...
An Iraqi Shiite cleric looks at the 750-year-old minaret of the Nakhila mosque in Kafel, northeast of the holy Shiite city of Najaf, in central Iraq,...
Shiite Muslims pray on Laylat al-Qadr which marks the night in which the holy Koran was first revealed to the Prophet Mohammed, outside the shrine of...
An Iraqi Shiite scholar who teaches at a school for clerics, known in Arabic as Haouza, walks past book stalls in the holy city of Najaf, 160 kms...
An Iraqi Shiite scholar who teaches at a school for clerics, known in Arabic as Haouza, walks past book stalls in the holy city of Najaf, 160 kms...
American soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division 2nd Battalion 7th Cavalry run through a smoke screen as they try to avoid sniper fire during an...
Shiite Muslims, supporters of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq party led by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, demonstrate in support of...
Iraqi police leave the holy city of Najaf as they head, alongside fighters from the Saraya al-Salam , a group formed by Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric...
Picture taken on July 14, 2014 shows graves stretching away into the horizon at one of the world's biggest cemeteries in the Iraqi holy Shiite city...
Armed soldiers of the Al-Medhi Army man a traffic checkpoint April 20, 2004 at the entrance to Kufa just outside the holy Iraqi Shia City of Najaf....
Army soldiers from the 1st Battalion 14th regiment of the 25th Infantry Division advance across an Iraqi palm grove during an operation against...
Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Regiment of the First Infantry Division pray for Staff Sergeant Victor Rosales and Specialist Allen Vantayburg...
Army blackhawk helicopter takes off from forward operating base Duke April 14, 2004 about 12 miles outside the holy Iraqi city of Najaf, Iraq....
Army soldiers from the 1-14 Infantry of Task Force Duke move with weapons ready during a practice assault at forward operating base Duke on April 12,...
Army soldiers from the 1-14 Infantry of Task Force Duke engage in a practice assault during a practice assault at forward operating base Duke on...
An Iraqi youth crosses behind retreating U.S. Armored personnel carriers April 6, 2004 in the sprawling Shia slum known as Sadr City in Eastern...
Iraqis walk among graves at the Najaf cemetery which is located approximately 180 km south of Baghdad February 1, 2004 in Najaf, Baghdad. Iraqis from...
Iraqi Shiite Muslim women and a child visit the grave of a loved one 24 September 2003 at a Shiite cemetary in the holy city of Najaf, 180 km south...
Iraqi army soldiers instruct a class of the new Shrine Police 17 September 2003 at the Najaf Technical College in the central Iraqi Shiite holy city...
Marine trainers take part in a three-day academy session July 13, 2003 for Iraqi guards who will become the Facility Protection Service of U.S....
Marine trainers practice self-defense moves in the looted Al Qods jail building and police academy in Najaf, Iraq before the start of a three-day...
Members of a new 400-strong protection force set up to guard the tomb of Imam Ali, one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines, wait on a street following...
Iraqi police arrest a car-bombing suspect August 30 the day after a car bomb ripped up the perimeter of the Sheikh Ali mosque, the most holy site in...
Iraqi men make their wa through tombs in the cemetery of the holy Shiite Muslim city of Najaf, 175km south of Baghdad, 17 August 2003. The cemetery,...
Iraq's top US overseer Paul Bremer makes his way to a waiting helicopter ready to take him to the Shiite holy city of Najaf, some 160kms south of...
Soldiers guard a massive anti-US demonstration in the Shiite holy city of Najaf 20 July 2003. More than ten thousand demonstators rallied in support...
Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr speaks to a crowd of tens of thousands 25 July 2003, after prayers at al-Kufa mosque in the holy city of Najaf, 180kms...
Iraqi Shiite Muslims gather to perform Eid al-Adha prayer at the yard of the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf, Iraq on June 16, 2024.
Outspoken Iraqi sheikh Muqtada al-Sadr delivers Friday prayers on July 11 at the mosque in Kufa, near Najaf, where his father Mohamed Sadeq...
An Iraqi man sits at the cemetery May 13, 2003 in Najaf, Iraq. The cemetery of Al-Najaf is one of the largest cemeteries in the world and Muslims...
Army 3rd Division 3-7 Infantry soldiers kick in a door and search a residence during a search and destroy mission March 27, 2003 near the town of An...
Army 3rd Infantry Division Scout humvees move deeper into Iraqi territory March 23, 2003 south of the city of An Najaf, Iraq. U.S. And British forces...
Iraqi men dig graves to burry victims killed in Baghdad stampede in Najaf, 160 kms south of the Iraqi capital, 01 September 2005. Thousands of...
An aerial view of Muslims visiting the graves of their late relatives and pray for them during Eid al-Fitr at Wadi al-Salaam Cemetery in Najaf, Iraq...
An aerial view of Muslims visiting the graves of their late relatives and pray for them during Eid al-Fitr at Wadi al-Salaam Cemetery in Najaf, Iraq...
An aerial view of Muslims visiting the graves of their late relatives and pray for them during Eid al-Fitr at Wadi al-Salaam Cemetery in Najaf, Iraq...
