NAJAF (Tasnim) – Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims start their walking to mark Arbaeen, the 40th day after the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (AS), the third Shiite Imam, from the holy city of Najaf, south of Karbala.

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