Huge crowds of Shiites gathered in Iraq and Lebanon Tuesday to mark a key holy
day in defiance of jihadists from the Islamic State group. Police and troops
were out in force as hundreds of thousands of pilgrims massed in the Iraqi
shrine city of Karbala to commemorate Ashura. Tens of thousands more rallied in
Beirut, where the head of the Shiite militant Hezbollah movement, Hassan
Nasrallah, pledged “victory” against the Sunni extremists of IS. (AFP) Find more
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