A woman in her 60s died of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever in Najaf, health officials confirmed. Iraq has recorded 179 cases ...

NAJAF, Iraq — Shiite clerics still make their rounds, pilgrims continue to pay homage, and street stalls conduct a vigorous business in Koranic pamphlets and posters of ayatollahs past. But the ...

Abtan says the city government is also planning a new, $38 billion suburb to accommodate Najaf's growing population. "Najaf is now No. 1 in Iraq in terms of reconstruction projects and economic ...

NAJAF, Iraq, May 13 -- Inthe chaos swirling around him, Abdul Munim Abud, appears serene. In his air-conditioned office, at his tidy desk, this ancient holy city riven by religious, political and ...

Senior Shiite Muslim clerics usually stay out of politics. But they've broken with tradition and issued a call to arms. Shiites are now volunteering — and dying — in the fight against Sunni ...

NAJAF, Iraq, March 29 -- No-man's land begins at Checkpoint Charlie, a fortified intersection on the southern edge of this embattled city.

Najaf’s founding as a city dates back to 791, when the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid supposedly passed through during a hunt. When the villagers informed him that he’d encountered Ali’s ...

NPR translator Yasir Rashid explains how he journeyed to Najaf this week to bury his father in the vast cemetary known as the Valley of Peace. Since April, U.S.-led forces and followers of radical ...

Shops have been shuttered and few of this holy city’s genteel residents are venturing out this week as armed young men, clad in black, their faces half-hidden by head scarves, stream into the ...