Shia community in India and mourners of the Muharram ceremonies held stations for blood donation as an alternative to flagellation, a pretext for anti-Islamic movements to present Islam as a violent religion.

“Imam Hussein (PBUH) does not belong to one specific religion,” stressed one of the members of Hezbollah Executive council.

Turkish Nationals in Iran casting their vote for Turkey Parliamentary Election

Mourning Ceremony in London Islamic Center for the Martyrdom of Imam Hussein (PBUH)

Traditional Mourning Ceremony of Ashoura in Khorram Abad (Photo)

Filling a crucial communication gap between the Muslim world and the West, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has announced plans to launch a new television channel, amid unprecedented wave of Islamophobia across the world.

Head of Iran’s Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO) said interfaith dialogues used to be mostly ceremonial at first but they have now become an academic issue.

World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thoughts begins its 26th year of struggles with the closest distance from its exact perspective of formation of a “unified Islamic nation” and launching its foundation as it is one of the most important demands of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic.

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) says Israeli soldiers "kidnapped" over 1,000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in October.

Syrian government forces have carried out large-scale mop-up operations against foreign-backed Takfiri militants across the conflict-ridden Arab country, delivering stinging blows to them.

The Yemen army, backed by Popular Committees loyal to the Houthi Ansarullah movement, has destroyed a Saudi warship in the waters close to the southwestern province of Ta’izz.

Iraq’s F-16 fighter jets have bombarded targets belonging to the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in Ramadi for the first time.

Russia’s largest internet search engine, Yandex, is to open offices in Iran, says Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi.

Brazil’s minister of development, industry and foreign trade is to arrive in the Iranian capital on an official visit tomorrow to explore ways of bolstering economic relations between Tehran and Brasilia.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has condemned as completely unjust a sentence issued against an Iranian national in the United States.

Ayatollah Arafi stressed that all Iranian factions and groups should realize that Ayatollah Khamenei has the “final word” over the JCPOA and that his advice and commandments are paramount to all partisan issues.

The former Grand Mufti of Egypt has stressed that appealing to God is worship and appealing to the Prophet Muhammad and Ahlul-Bayt is not a form of shirk or an innovation

Iran says Saudi Arabia’s execution of prominent Shia cleric Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, if carried out, would come at “a heavy expense” for the kingdom.

Karbala’s Friday prayers’ leader stated provided recommendations for the administration of the Ashura mourning rituals, which reach their apex tomorrow, and also called for more funding and aid for Iraqi fighters fighting ISIL.