Shiite Muslims take part in a mourning ritual in Iraq's southern city of Basra late on June 26, 2025 on the first night of the Muslim month of Muharram in the lead-up to Ashura. The religious commemoration of Ashura, which includes a ten-day mourning period starting on the first day of Muharram on the Islamic calendar, commemorates the seventh-century slaying of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein in Karbala. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)
