Najaf

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  Wadi Al-Salam: World's Largest Cemetery Where 6 Million Bodies Are Buried

  In a submission to UNESCO, Iraq estimated its area at 917 hectares - the equivalent of more than 1,700 football fields.

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  Adnan Zurfi Named New Iraq Prime Minister Amid Virus Lockdown, Attacks On US Troops

  Iraq's president on Tuesday named pro-Western lawmaker and former Najaf city governor Adnan Zurfi as the next prime minister, tasked with ruling a country hit by military unrest, street protests and the coronavirus pandemic.

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  Rajnath Singh Flags Off Inaugural Flight From Lucknow To Najaf

  Union Home minister Rajnath Singh Thursday flagged off the inaugural flight from Uttar Pradesh's capital city to Najaf in Iraq.

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  Nizam's Kin Disappointed Over Not Being Invited For Falaknuma Dinner

  The kin of the Nizam, the ruler of erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad, are disappointed over authorities not inviting them to a reception being hosted at one of his palaces in the city for GES delegates

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  Islamic State Claims Suicide Attack on Iraq Police That Killed 47

  The Islamic State (IS) group claimed a suicide attack on an Iraqi police base north of Baghdad that officials said today had killed at least 47 people.

• Iraq PM Rules Out Foreign Boots on the Ground

  Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi on Monday ruled out any foreign ground intervention to assist government forces in retaking territory lost to jihadists and urged Sunnis to give up such hopes.

• Iraqi Sacred City Gains Prominence as Baghdad Founders

  The holy Shiite city of Najaf has gained prominence as a centre of political and military power since the start of a crisis that has raised the spectre of Iraq breaking up along sectarian and ethnic lines.

• Iraqi Slaughter Swells Crowded Shiite Cemetery

  Responding to an appeal from Shi'ite clerics, Salah al-Wa'ili signed up earlier this month with a militia near Baghdad fighting the Islamist insurgents who have swept through northern Iraq and threatened the capital.

• Another 200 Indian Nationals Return From Iraq

  A day after 46 Indian nurses returned to Kochi in Kerala from war-torn Iraq, a special chartered flight carrying 200 more Indians from Najaf landed at the Delhi International Airport this morning.

• Nearly 600 Indians to Come Back From Iraq by Monday

  Nearly 600 Indians will come back from conflict-hit Iraq over the next two days of whom 200 will return by an Iraqi Airways special chartered flight from Najaf to Delhi tonight, External Affairs Ministry said today.

• 94 Indians Leave Iraq; Nearly 600 to Return This Week

  As many as 94 Indians on Monday left Iraq after a "pro-active approach" initated by the Indian officials there that would see nearly 600 nationals leaving the war-hit country to safety this week.

• Iraq Militants Launch Fresh Raid on Oil Refinery

  Sunni militants launched a dawn raid Wednesday on a key Iraqi oil refinery they have been trying to take for days but were repelled by security forces.

• Indian Workers Stranded in Iraq as Employer Retains Passports: Amnesty

  Several hundred Indian nationals may be stranded in the Najaf province of Iraq, unable to return home because their employer refuses to return their passports, Amnesty International said today.

• Iraq commemorates 1920 revolt against Britain in new museum

  Iraq opened a museum in the Shiite pilgrimage city of Najaf on Thursday commemorating a 1920 uprising against British occupation in a building that once housed captured soldiers.

• After Baghdad blasts, a journey of sorrow and pain

  Two buses speed south from Baghdad towards Najaf on Sunday bearing the bodies of people killed in an attack, as other buses return carrying upside-down coffins, the dead they held now buried.