20 Million Muslims Risked Their Lives to March Against ISIS in Karbala, Iraq-- Completely Ignored By Media Outlets.

• 20M Shia Muslims have assembled and taken part in one of the biggest marches in the world--a march against ISIS.

• Media outlets completely ignore the march--although it could have greatly eased tensions in the West.

• Karbala, Iraq-- around 50 miles, south west of Baghdad, faces the desert of Anbar, a vast province that was until recently an ISIS bastion and where jihadists still carry out frequent attacks.

• Last week, a suicide bomber killed six people near Karbala in an attack claimed by the so-called Islamic State.

• Many choose to make the journey on foot, despite travelling near Isis-controlled areas in the country and the extremist group having made frequent deadly attacks on the pilgrimage. 
• Pilgrim Jaber Kadhem Khalif said: "I came walking from Basra with my wife and three sons...We started walking 13 days ago and reached Karbala on Sunday night."

• Shia Muslims were also marching to Karbala to commemorate the holy day of Arbaeen.

• ISIS has declared Shia Muslims apostates and targeted them in its bloody campaign to establish a hardline caliphate across Iraq and Syria. 

• Large-scale security operations, involving 24,000 soldiers and police, were put in place during this year's march due to fears Isis forces in and around its last major stronghold of Mosul may seek to strike Baghdad or Karbala during Arbaeen.