Waqia e Karbala Poster

The Battle of Karbala was fought on 10 October 680 between the army of the second Umayyad Caliph Yazid I and a small army led by Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, at Karbala, Sawad. Prior to his death, the Umayyad caliph Muawiyah I had nominated his son Yazid as his successor.