By Maziar Motamedi Tehran, Iran – A holy shrine in Iran’s southern city of Shiraz has come under a second

Graphic displaying vote totals for each candidate for Iran's Presidency By Maziar Motamedi Tehran, Iran

Demonstrators gather around a burning barricade during a protest in Tehran on September 19 [AFP] By Maziar Motamedi Tehran, Iran – Protests that erupted in many parts of Iran following the death of a young

By Rahim Faiez An injured man is transported to a hospital after a bombing in Mazar-e-Sharif, northern The minivans were targeted in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif after explosive devices were placed All the victims in Mazar-e-Sharif were from the country’s minority Shiite Muslims, according to a police

The blast in Mazar-i-Sharif, one of Afghanistan’s economic hubs, was the latest in a series of attacks The attack, during afternoon prayers at the Seh Dokan mosque in the center of Mazar-i-Sharif, one of Gaousuddin Anwari, the director of Abu Ali Sina-e-Balkhi Hospital in Mazar-i-Sharif. “I was in my pharmacy when I heard the sound of an explosion,” said Nazir Samim, a resident of Mazar-i-Sharif State claimed it had carried out a rocket attack from Haritan, a border town roughly 50 miles north of Mazar-i-Sharif

The Taliban massacred between 2000 and 15,000 Hazaras in Mazar-e Sharif in 1998. thousands of Hazaras from their ancestral lands across the country including Daikundi, Helmand, Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif

many definitions and positions on blasphemy as there are Muslim countries and scholars," says Arafat Mazhar Mazhar says other countries' laws appear to be informed by the variance in Islamic scholars' views on there is a greater ideological interest in blasphemy cases regardless of personal altercations," says Mazhar The shift in vested interest, argues Mazhar, has now moved from being personal, between the plaintiff

The following events––the massacres under Abdur Rahman Khan, the Afshar Massacre, and the Mazir-i-Sharif

Bombs exploded on two passenger vans carrying Shia Muslims in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif on

Hadi was also directly involved in the genocide of over 8000 Hazaras in Mazar I Sharif in 1998. To this day no one has ever been tried for the genocidal massacres in Mazar I Sharif and Bamiyan.

seriously threatened by the Taliban furtively streamed, family by family, to hiding places around Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif We connected Ben with the Shai Fund, which arranged travel and a safe house in Mazar, and, in October

In the town of Aibak, capital of Samangan province on the main road between the northern town of Mazar-i-Sharif attacks on the United States, appeared to be in a position to advance from different directions on Mazar-i-Sharif