Afghanistan

Amnesty International said in a report published on Wednesday that the lives of women and girls in Afghanistan are being devastated by the Taliban’s brutal campaign against their rights. Since returning to power, the Taliban have restricted women’s and girls’…

The official website of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi announced laying the cornerstone for the Imam al-Hadi (peace be upon him) Scientific School and the Noble Quran Library and House in the Afghan city of Ghazni. In a statement received by Shia…

A woman who served as the first female mayor in Afghanistan is urging the U.S. government to declare the Taliban’s treatment of the Hazara ethnic group a genocide as the first anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the…

A new report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) makes for very grim reading, confirming many of the concerns Afghan human rights advocates have raised since last August, when the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. UNAMA catalogues…

In conjunction with the blessed days of the birth of Imam Ali Al-Naqi, peace be upon him, the Imam Al-Hadi Foundation, peace be upon him, in cooperation with the Sayyed al-Shuhada Committee, distributed clothes to more than 200 orphans under…

In coordination with the Office of the Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, in the city of Herat, Afghanistan, Misbah Al-Hussein Foundation for Relief and Development distributed sacrificial meat to the underprivileged believers and orphans on the…

Afghan media reported that dozens of people have died of cholera in Helmand and Zabul provinces in southern Afghanistan. The sources said that “at least 40 people died of cholera in Helmand and Zabul provinces in southern Afghanistan,” adding that…

The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission considered the situation of women in the country extremely deplorable, noting that the Taliban imposed severe and persistent restrictions on women. The statement of the Independent Commission for Human Rights stated that women in…

The Taliban movement has displaced thousands of Afghan Hazara Shias from their areas in which they live, to take the mountains and desert as their dwelling in tragic and difficult circumstances. More than two thousand families of Hazaras from the…

The Al-Mustafa Charitable and Cultural Foundation, affiliated with the Office of the Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Ayatollah Shirazi, in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif, initiated the reconstruction of the Sayyid Hamza Mosque, peace be upon him. The official website of…