The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in southern Syria, including one on government forces that ...

A shrine on the outskirts of Damascus has long been a prominent destination for Shias from around the world. Its golden dome ...

At the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, rituals of faith unfold: worshippers kneel in prayer, visitors raise their palms skyward or ...

Iran has sentenced three people to death and jailed several others convicted over their roles in deadly attacks on a Shiite shrine in the southern city of Shiraz, the judiciary said Sunday. The ...

A bomb attack in Iraq has badly damaged one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, sparking furious protests. Thousands of Iraqis have gathered at the al-Askari shrine in Samarra, north of Baghdad, where ...

Syrian interim authorities have reportedly thwarted a terrorist plot aimed at a Shiite shrine south of Damascus, as per state news agency SANA. The plot, allegedly orchestrated by an Islamic State ...

Intelligence officials in Syria's new de facto government thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shiite shrine in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab, state media ...

Syrian authorities foiled an attempt by ISIL terrorists to blow up a revered Shiite shrine in a Damascus suburb, a source within Syria's intelligence agency told state new agency SANA on Saturday.

Syrian authorities have foiled an attempt by ISIL (ISIS) fighters to blow up a revered Shia shrine in a Damascus suburb, state news agency SANA has reported. Intelligence and security forces ...

The Sayyida Zeinab Shia shrine in south Damascus has been left untouched by Syrian rebels, who have not confronted Iraqi paramilitary groups, Iraqi fighters told Middle East Eye. Iraqi Shia ...

The controversy started after a group of Shia youths recited the Nouha (mourning) for Imam Hussain inside the shrine this week. Kashmir had witnessed big Muharram gatherings this year during which ...