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‘We wanted a reason for people to come back’: Lebanese city marks Ashura after destruction of war

People in Nabatieh mourn the city’s recent dead in religious ceremony held amid empty streets and shattered buildings

As the procession wound its way through mounds of rubble, the crowd chanted and beat their chests, their lamentations echoed by the dull thud of shelling in the foothills just beyond the city.

“This the tragedy of Karbala, O Imam Hussein, look. This is the tragedy of Karbala,” the crowd cried in the opening procession of Ashura, in the city of Nabatieh, southern Lebanon.

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Jun 19, 2026 Lebanon Islam Middle East and north Africa

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