The Council of Shia Ulamas of Afghanistan, by publishing a statement, condemned the burning of the Holy Quran by the leader of the right-wing party of Sweden. In its statement, this council asked the Muslims of the world and the leaders of the Islamic countries not to remain indifferent to the insult to the religious and Islamic sanctities and to react ...

Thomas Patterson; Head of Political Affairs and Senior Adviser to the UN Special Representative for Afghanistan and Julian Link; The UN Political Office in Kabul, in a meeting with members of the Shia Demands Commission, called for the views of the Shia community on the current situation.

Saudi Arabia's Specialized Criminal Court has sentenced five anti-regime dissidents from the kingdom’s oil-rich and Shia-populated Eastern Province to death, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against pro-democracy campaigners, Muslim preachers and intellectuals continues in the country.

Millions of Shia Muslims around the world, including in Iran, have joined celebrations to mark the birth anniversary of the Twelfth and last Shia Imam, Imam Mahdi (PBUH).

In a historic meeting, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has held talks with Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the holy city of Najaf on the final day of his landmark visit to the neighboring Arab state.