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Almost twelve years into Syria’s devastating civil war, the country remains tattered and deeply divided, facing massive economic hardships, limited political progress and the world’s largest displacement crisis, with 70 per cent of the population now in need of humanitarian…

The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General says she opposes cutting aid to Afghanistan as a response to the Taliban’s policies towards women and girls. Amina Mohammed, the UN deputy chief, and Sima Bahous the head of UN Women, briefed senior EU…

Today, Friday, the Samarra Operations Command confirmed that the number of pilgrims to Imam Al-Hadi, Peace be upon him, has reached more than one million. Pilgrims from all over the Iraqi provinces and from foreign and neighboring countries have arrived…

Pakistan has for the past several decades been battling sectarianism. While targeted killings and sectarian acts of terrorism may currently be down, in the past the nation has witnessed grotesque massacres of innocent people carried out by sectarian death squads,…

The United Nations on Wednesday (Jan 24) inscribed an ancient city and its dam in war-torn Yemen and a futurist park in cash-strapped Lebanon on its world heritage list. The UN cultural agency listed both as world heritage sites in…

The Indian and Egyptian authorities must address the ongoing human rights and impunity crises in the two countries, Amnesty International said today, as India hosts Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as the chief guest at its Republic Day celebrations. In…

Millions of mourners are flocking towards the Askariyan Holy Shrine in Samara to offer their condolences to the Imam of our time, Imam al-Mahdi (may Allah hasten his honorable reappearance) on the tagedy of the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Ali…

Amid an atmosphere of sadness and sorrow, the honorable house of the Supreme Religious Authority, His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi in the holy city of Qom, commemorated on Wednesday the painful tragedy of the martyrdom of Imam…

France has repatriated fifteen women and thirty-two children who were held in detention camps designated for former members of the terrorist organization of ISIS, in northeastern Syria, according to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “The minors have been handed…

Shia Rights Watch Organization has expressed its strong condemnation of the Saudi authorities’ arrest of the Shia cleric, Sheikh Hassan Al-Khuwailidi, calling for his immediate release. In an important statement received by Shia Waves Agency, the organization said that it…