Members of the Basij paramilitary force are beating themselves in a religious ceremony during a military rally in downtown Tehran, Iran, on November...
Sunni Muslims pray at a mosque with police security after they were attacked by Shia Muslims, Karachi, Pakistan, 1996.
Pakistani Shiite Muslims chants slogans against the U.S., Britain and Israel during a mourning procession for their spiritual leader Imam Hussein, on...
The historic temple of Yazidis sits in the village of Lalesh February 15, 2003 in northern Iraq. Yazidi is one of the oldest religions in the world,...
Egyptian Sheikh Sayyed Ahmed Ibrahim carries flowers to the Mausoleum of the Sultan Mohamed Shah Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the Shiite Ismaili...
Members Iraq's Shiite Muslim al-Nujaba movement wave the Palestinian flag during a rally in Baghdad on October 8 to express their support of the...
Tehran, Iran. Iranian Shia Muslims women attend the commemoration ceremony within Muharram month to commemorate the martyrdom of Prophet Muhammad's...
Man stands between Hezbollah and Lebanese flags, as Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Shiite militia of Lebanon, at the Baalbek Tourist Museum that just...
Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims beat their chests during the Ashura procession outside Imam Hussein's Shrine in the holy city of Karbala, 30...
Black-shirted followers of a hardline Shiite Muslim sect carry a banner depicting Ibrahim Zakzaky, a Nigerian Shiite radical who wants to set up an...
Shiite Muslims flagellate themselves during a procession on the ninth day of Ashura in the Islamic month of Muharram in Islamabad on July 28, 2023....
Afghan Shiite Muslims mourners march during a procession on the tenth day of Ashura in the Islamic month of Muharram at Pul-e-Sokhta area in Kabul on...
An Iraqi man performs the weekly Friday prayers outside a mosque in the Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City on June 25, 2010. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE
Shiite Muslims take part in a religious ceremony during the climax of the ten-day mourning period of the death of Imam Hussein in the holy city...
Lebanese Shiite boy sits next to his mother as she joins thousands of women in a mass religious ceremony attended by Hezbollah's Secretary Generel...
Iranian scholars engage in lively discussions and diligent studies at the scenic yard of Feyziyeh School, in Qom, May 28, 2005. Feyziyeh School is a...
Yemenis drive down a street where large banners depicting the Houthi leader Abdulmalik Badr Al-Din Al-Houthi , his father Bader Al-Din Al-Houthi ,...
Shiites pray in the city center on August 9, 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. Shiite Muslim men, women and children hold an annual procession where men beat...
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah , the head of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, surrounded by bodyguards, leads a gathering of thousands of Shiites 03 June...
Lebanese Sunni and Shiite Muslim clerics stand together behind Lebanese army soldiers and peacekeepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon...
An elderly woman carries an AK-47 assault rifle and a rocket-propelled grenade as she jokes with militiamen loyal to radical Iraqi Shiite Muslim...
Shiite Muslim Iraqi fighter of the Mehdi Army militia stands close to the Abbasiyah Bridge leading into the town of Kufa, a few kilometers away from...
Militiaman loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr takes position near a cemetery not far from the centre of the holy city of Najaf, during...
Group of Shiite women walk through the Wadi-al-Salam cemetery in Iraq's holy shrine city of Najaf on April 22 to visit the tombs of deceased...
Shiite Muslims take part in the Juloos on 21 Ramadan Youm e Shahadat of Hazrat Ali, the day marking the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Ali, in...
Mahdi Army militiaman takes a combat position at an area on the outskirts of Baghdad's impoverished district of Sadr City on March 28, 2008. Prime...
Pigeon rests on the shoulder of an Iraqi Shiite Muslim militiaman loyal to radical cleric Moqtada Sadr taking position in an abandoned construction...
Shiite Muslims light candles on the gravestones to mark Lailat al-Barat , one of five holy nights of the Muslims as the night of fortune and...
Shiite Muslims light candles on the gravestones to mark Lailat al-Barat , one of five holy nights of the Muslims as the night of fortune and...
Shiite Muslim pilgrims mourn as they commemorate the death of the 8th-century Imam Musa al-Kadhim, in northern Baghdad's Kadhimiya district, on...
Shiite Muslim pilgrims gather to pray at the shrine of the 8th-century Imam Musa al-Kadhim in the Kadhimiya district, north of Baghdad, on February...
Supporters of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah attend a televised speech by the group's leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut's southern suburbs,...
An Iraqi woman carrying a child walks past large portraits of the supreme Shiite cleric Ali al-Sistani and the late Shiite cleric Muhammad Baqir...
General view shows Shiite Imam Ali's historical mosque in the southern Iraqi city of Basra at sunset, late 20 February 2007. The mosque, which was...
Supporters of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah attend a televised speech by the group's leader Hassan Nasrallah in the Lebanese capital...
Zahra The road out of Nawa Foladi, a village with a single dirt track, hand-pumped wells and no electricity, outside near Bamyan, Afghanistan,...
Supporters of Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr Friday prayers at the Great Mosque of Kufa outside the central holy city of Najaf, on...
Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr delivers the speech following Friday prayers alongside his supporters at the Great Mosque of Kufa in the...
Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr delivers the speech following Friday prayers alongside his supporters at the Great Mosque of Kufa in the...
Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr delivers the speech following Friday prayers alongside his supporters at the Great Mosque of Kufa in the...
Mourners take part in a funeral for victims of a mass shooting at a key shrine earlier in the week that killed more than a dozen worshippers, in...
Iraqi Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi arrives at the parliament ahead of a confidence vote on a new government, on October 27, 2022. - Prime...
Iranian security forces deploy following an armed attack at the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in the city of Shiraz on October 26, 2022. - At least 15...
Supporters of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr take cover amid clashes with Iraqi security forces in Tahrir Square in the centre of Iraq's capital...
Supporters of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr take cover amid clashes with Iraqi security forces in Tahrir Square in the centre of Iraq's capital...
Supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gather at Tahrir Square as they try to enter Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq on September 28, 2022.
Iraqi supporters of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr clash with security forces in Tahrir Square in the centre of Iraq's capital Baghdad on...
Iraqi supporters of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr gather in Tahrir Square in the centre of Iraq's capital Baghdad on September 28, 2022 ahead of...
This picture taken on September 16, 2022 shows Shiite Muslim devotees gathering in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Karbala on the eve of Arbaeen ,...
Iraqi Shiite pilgrims attend Arbain events in Karbala, Iraq, 16 September 2022. Iraqi Shiite Muslims gather in Karbala to perform the religious...
Shiite clerics join supporters of Moqtada Sadr taking part in the weekly Friday prayers outside the parliament building in the Green Zone of the...
Shiite Muslim mourners beat their chest on the tenth day of Ashura during the Islamic month of Muharram, commemorating the seventh century killing of...
Saudi Shiite Muslims attend a mourning ritual to mark Ashura, commemorating the killing of Prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussein, in Qatif city in...
Supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr continue sit-in protesting Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani chosen by the "Coordination Framework" alliance as a...
Fighters of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah take part in a parade to mark the 22nd anniversary of the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon in...
Shiite Muslim girls sing and clap during a mass wedding ceremony in Baghdad's impoverished Sadr City neighborhood 06 August 2005. The Iraqi Martyr...
Chief spokesman for the Taliban Zabihullah Mujahid looks on as he attends a gathering where Afghan Hazara elders pledged their support to the...
People gather for the burial of victims at a graveyard in Kandahar on October 16 a day after 41 people were killed and scores were injured in a...
Kuwaiti Shiite Muslims take part in a religious procession during the ten-day mourning period leading up to Ashura, in Kuwait City, on August 17,...