A human tide fervently celebrating Ashura, the great religious festival of the Shiites. We are in Iraq to Karbala, 110 km south of Baghdad, where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims flocked Tuesday.
This Mourns past attacks by party was under strict surveillance while jihadist organization Islamic State sowed terror in parts of the country since June.
Moreover, Shiites who fled the cities and areas controlled by jihadists took to the streets of the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq to celebrate Ashura.
Kurdish authorities have mobilized by the security forces, fewer course at Kerbala where more than 25,000 soldiers and police, as well as Shiite militiamen 1500 were made to protect the faithful.
With AFP
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