Mourning ceremonies being held to mark Ashura worldwide

Ashura is the culmination of a 10-day annual mourning period in the lunar calendar month of Muharram for Imam Hussein (AS), who was martyred along with his 72 companions in the Battle of Karbala in southern Iraq in 680 AD after fighting courageously for justice against the much larger army of the Umayyad caliph, Yazid.

Imam Khomeini ’s role was also central in shaping the new political order that emerged from the ...

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The chain of events that ended in February 1979 with the overthrow of the Pahlavi regime

Rarely seen photos of Martyr Ayatollah Beheshti

On the martyrdom anniversary; Ayatollah Beheshti, the first judiciary chief, secretary-general of the Islamic Republic party, and deputy head of the Assembly of Experts along several of his colleagues lost their lives in a terrorist attack on June 28, 1981.

Hundreds of bodies found near another former Church-run residential school in Canada

Hundreds of unmarked graves, many believed to be of children, have been found at the site of another former Church-run residential school in Canada. The graves are located near the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan, said the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations (FSIN), which represents 74 nations in the province, in a press release on Wednesday.

Jurisprudential foundations of the Islamic Revolution from perspective of Imam Khomeini’s ideals

Author: Ali Akbar Nassari Year: 2009 University: Al-Mustafa International University, Higher School for Jurisprudence and Islamic studies

Pakistani scholars say Imam Khomeini has been a symbol of courage, determination

Pakistani thinkers, leaders of religious parties and scholars affiliated with different Islamic schools of thought attended the event. They expressed their heartfelt devotion to Imam Khomeini and his sacrifices in the fight against tyranny, arrogant powers, support for the oppressed, including Palestine.