Afghanistan

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has said the human rights conditions in Afghanistan and Syria are still dangerous and that repatriation of citizens should not be carried out without their consent. Turk’s statement came during…

Police officials in northern Afghanistan said that about 60 girls from two different schools were hospitalized after being poisoned under mysterious circumstances over the weekend. Police spokesperson in Sar-e-Pol province, Den Mohammed Nazari said on Monday that, “Some unknown people…

The Office of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan announced that a delegation from this office met and talked with the imams of the congregation prayers, religious activists and clerics, as well as social figures of…

An institution known as the “Afghanistan Religious Intellectuals Society” has expressed concern about the excessive growth of Taliban religious schools. In a statement, this organization said that the Taliban, using internal funds and foreign aid, builds jihadist schools that have…

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has accused the European Union of marked neglect towards Afghan refugees at some EU borders. The leading Charity organization says: many Afghan refugees in need of protection remain stuck at the borders of the European…

The International Shia Rights Watch Organization has issued its monthly report for May on the most prominent human rights violations against Shia Muslims around the world. The five-page report included a review of major terrorist attacks, including bombings, as well…

The Kabul-based Kawthar-ul-Nabee Hawza and Dar-ul-Quran have organized joyful ceremony on Imam Redha’s blessed birth anniversary. The official website of the office of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi said, today Tuesday, that, “Crowds of Zainabi women in Kabul participated in the joyful…

The Mesbah Al-Hussein Foundation for Relief and Development, one of the centers affiliated to Grand Ayatollah Shirazi, has disclosed the results of its cultural competition organized in Herat, Afghanistan. The administration of the Foundation stated to Shia Waves Agency today…

The “Foreign Police” magazine has published a new article in which it criticized the current education system under the leadership of Taliban. The author of the article published on Wednesday, Lynne O’Donnell, said that the extreme curriculum used in Afghanistan…

Afghan Muslim women activists and researchers have said that Imam Jaafar Al-Sadiq’s scientific position, as the founder of the Jaafari School of Thought, is unparalleled amongst the other Islamic schools of thought. During a scientific symposium held by Sayyeda Fatima…