Border village Khiyam dresses in black to prepare for the annual mourning days of Ashoura

Border village Khiyam dresses in black to prepare for the annual mourning days of Ashoura. In Ashoura Muslims mourn the murder of the grandson of the prophet and his family in the desert of Iraq’s Karbala. There he was beheaded, left in the sun for days, all men in his family but one killed, and all women and children dragged as Sabaya (hostages) from Iraq to Syria. Source: Lebanese News and Updates