Sentence examples for karbala from inspiring English sources

The president left loaded with books on Islamic law for his library, wary that he had accepted a Trojan horse for the takeover of his law faculty, if not his campus.American commanders say that Karbala is their best-run city in central and southern Iraq.

Speaking at prayers last week, the Friday Imam in Najaf, Sadruddin Qubanchi, spoke of his dismay at the present state of affairs: What we are going to say to the world … what can we say about Karbala.

Mr Sadr has long craved the enormous sums raised in donations by Shia pilgrims in Karbala and Najaf, and it appears this envy may have spilled over.

Shia pilgrims still flock to Karbala and Najaf in Iraq, despite the threat of bombs.

One killed 48 on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Karbala.

This was the chant, in rhyming Arabic, of 100 white-robed tribesmen at a dusty polling station near the Shia Muslim holy city of Karbala.

And its memory of the eight-year war with Iraq from 1980, in which half a million Iranians were killed, is still vivid.Yet if ISIS were to threaten Baghdad or the shrines revered by Shias in the Iraqi cities of Najaf or Karbala, which are visited by hundreds of thousands of Iranian pilgrims every year, that would be another matter.

With millions bound for Karbala for Ashoura, he has no interest in letting pilgrimages turn into demonstrations, as happened under previous leaders.

In the province of Karbala, south of Baghdad, an independent candidate who won 13% of the vote, more than anyone else, by running on a secular anti-corruption platform was expected to become governor.

The holy city of Karbala, for example, escaped serious looting.

Even the newly constituted police force of Karbala chipped in.