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)
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