Battle of Karbala

Period

680

Region

Middle East

Category

War

The Battle of Karbala was fought on 10 October 680 between the forces of the second Umayyad caliph Yazid I, and a small army led by Husayn ibn Ali, second son of Ali and grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, at Karbala, in modern-day southern Iraq.

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