Najaf in a sentence

Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims at Imam Ali Shrine in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, on March 16, 2020 after the Najaf authorities banned all visits by non-residents following the outbreak of coronavirus.

Najaf said navigating the tax system can be especially difficult if your first language isn’t one of the two official languages, and said he’s struggled to find all the information he needs.

Families exhume the bodies of relatives who died of Covid-19 and were buried in Wadi Al Salam cemetery in Najaf.

Iraq announced the discovery of the first coronavirus case in the country on Monday in the Shiite Muslim holy city of Najaf.

Iraqi family members eat their evening iftar meal to break the fast during Ramadan in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, April 27, 2020.

Iraq on Monday confirmed its first novel coronavirus case in an elderly Iranian national living in the southern city of Najaf, according to health officials.

On September 7, the families of people who died of Covid-19 at the start of the pandemic in Iraq were finally able to start recovering the bodies of their loved ones, who had been temporarily buried in a makeshift cemetery in the desert near Najaf.

According to the report, the Iranian vice president is also planned to join the Arbaeen trek between the two holy cities of Najaf and Karbala and visit makeshifts camps set up by Iraqis and Iranians known as Mawkibs to host Arbaeen pilgrims.

Crowds again hit the streets, and schools and government offices remained shut, in Iraq’s southern hotspots of Kut, Najaf, Diwaniyah and Nasiriyah on Monday.

If we include our brothers in the holy cities of Qom and Najaf al-Ashraf too, it will make for a spectacular number.

In Najaf, a city of ancient pilgrimage shrines that serves as seat of 's powerful Shi'ite clergy, the Iranian consulate was reduced to a charred ruin after it was stormed overnight.

Mourners carry the coffin of a protester, who was killed at anti-government protests in Friday's demonstrations in Baghdad, during a funeral in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq October 26, 2019.

Protesters torched the consulate in the holy city of Najaf in the evening.

The deaths came after a day after protesters burned the Iranian consulate in Najaf.

The torching of the consulate in Najaf, the southern holy city, on Wednesday night escalated violence in Iraq after weeks of mass demonstrations that aim to bring down a government seen as corrupt and backed by the Islamic Republic.

How many make pilgrimage from Najaf to Karbala annually during the Shia Arba’een Pilgrimage?

They also briefly disrupted the operation of an international airport in Najaf last week.

Permission was given, and Hasan Ali Shah's mother and a few relatives were sent to Najaf and other holy cities in Iraq in which the shrines of his ancestors, the Shiite Imams are found.