STORY: Worshippers typically bang their chests and chant while flogging themselves with knives or swords in mourning for Imam Hussein. The Prophet Muhammed's grandson died in the battle of Kerbala in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shiite Muslims across the globe on Tuesday observed Ashura, an annual commemoration mourning the seventh-century martyrdom of a ...

An apparent suicide bomb tore through a Shiite religious procession in Pakistan Thursday, killing more than a dozen people and wounding many more. The attack came on Ashura, one of the holiest days in ...

Imam Marwan Sarwar Gill, Missionary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Argentina, told Newsweek that "Ashura" means "tenth" in Arabic. Ashura is marked by Sunni Muslims with voluntary days of ...

Shiite Muslim pilgrims flock to the Imam Hussein Shrine in Iraq's holy city of Karbala to mark Ashura, an annual day of mourning that commemorates the death of Prophet Mohammed's grandson, Imam ...

Shiite Muslims in Texas and around the world Monday are mourning the massacre of Husayn ibn Ali, his family members and companions — a slaughter that occurred roughly 1,350 years ago and is one of the ...