Shias in Afghanistan

IQNA

IQNA – The Afghan Shia Ulema Council issued a statement on the arrival of the month of Muharram, calling on the country’s security officials to provide the conditions for the grand and safe holding of the Muharram and Ashura mourning ceremonies.
News ID: 3497853   Publish Date : 2026/06/15

IQNA – An exhibition titled “Blue Jasmine” has opened in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan on the martyrdom anniversary of Hazrat Zahra (SA).
News ID: 3495490   Publish Date : 2025/11/22

IQNA – A grenade attack during Friday prayers at a mosque in Aybak, the capital of northern Samangan Province, wounded at least four people, Taliban officials said.
News ID: 3491860   Publish Date : 2025/02/14

IQNA – Iran’s Foreign Minister, Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, held discussions on Sunday with members of Afghanistan's Shia Scholars Council during his visit to Kabul for talks with the Taliban-led interim government.
News ID: 3491628   Publish Date : 2025/01/27

IQNA – The Shia Ulema (scholars) Council of Afghanistan has strongly condemned the “horrific” terrorist attack targeting a group of Shia Muslims in central Afghanistan.
News ID: 3489887   Publish Date : 2024/09/14

IQNA – Daesh terrorist group has claimed responsibility for a deadly shooting at a mosque in western Afghanistan that claimed lives of six worshipers, including a child.
News ID: 3488166   Publish Date : 2024/05/01

IQNA – A group of unidentified attackers launched a deadly assault on a Shia mosque in northwestern Afghanistan, resulting in the tragic loss of seven lives, including that of a child.
News ID: 3488144   Publish Date : 2024/04/30

IQNA – The Daesh terrorist group said it was behind a minibus bombing that killed at least two civilians and wounded 14 others in a predominantly Shia Muslim district of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on Saturday.
News ID: 3486714   Publish Date : 2024/01/07

IQNA – A senior Afghan cleric said the prime objective of terrorists who assassinate Shia scholars in Afghanistan is inciting religious discord.  
News ID: 3486387   Publish Date : 2023/12/12

KABUL (IQNA) – The Taliban described the recent assassination of six people, including two Shia clerics, in Afghanistan’s Herat as an "unforgivable" crime.
News ID: 3486252   Publish Date : 2023/12/02

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Mukhtar Modabber, 30, rushed to the blast site as soon as he heard about the explosion at the Kaj education center in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, desperately praying his sister was safe.
News ID: 3480704   Publish Date : 2022/10/03

TEHRAN (IQNA) – A terrorist attack by Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) on Friday in a Shia neighborhood of Kabul claimed at least eight lives, wounding 15 others.
News ID: 3479987   Publish Date : 2022/08/06