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The US handed down more sanctions on the Taliban as punishment for its treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan. The announcement was made on the UN’s International Day of the Girl Child on Tuesday, October 11th. According to The Straits Times, a new visa restriction policy for current or former…

The International Sayyed al-Shuhada Committee, peace be upon him, provided aid to the needy and orphans in Iran on the occasion of Farhat al-Zahra, peace be upon her. A statement published on the Shirazi Religious Authority website stated that “on…

The United Nations has warned that Syria will witness one of the harshest winters this year, due to the lack of fuel and energy and the deteriorating social and economic situation. UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said nearly six million people…

At the invitation of the Rawaq Baghdad Center for Public Policy and the Swedish IDEA organization, and funding by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Najaf Center for Strategic Studies (NCSS), which is affiliated with the religious authority office…

At least three young men are at risk of imminent execution in Saudi Arabia after an appeal court confirmed their sentences between June and October this year, Amnesty International said yesterday, Monday. Following the grossly unfair trials, the organization called…

Saudi Arabia has announced that a male guardian, or a mahram, is no longer needed to accompany a female pilgrim performing Hajj and Umrah. The Saudi Minister of Hajj and Umrah, Dr. Tawfiq Al-Rabiah, announced that a woman can now…

The Supreme Religious Authority, His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, has begun his advanced lessons in jurisprudence with the start of the new academic year of the seminaries. The lessons began on Saturday, with the attendance and participation…

On the 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Alice Edwards, and the Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz, issued the…

In an important comparison in an article by the American website (Patheos) concerned with religious affairs, between the Sunni and Shia Islamic sects, the article saw that the Shia school of Ahlulbayt (peace be upon them) has many pioneering features,…

The world remained a mute spectator when the Taliban took over Kabul without firing a single shot. The NATO troops were busy leaving the war-torn-nation, unbothered by the loss in the advancement that they made after two decades of war…