Some time after the Taliban’s first fall, when National Geographic Explorer Shabana Basij-Rasikh was eleven years old, she was taking a school placement test in Kabul. According to official ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The commander of Iran’s Basij (mobilization) Force described plans to strengthen his organization as a national duty. In comments on Sunday, Brigadier General Gholam Reza ...

Iran's supreme leader on Wednesday dismissed US calls for Tehran to stop enriching uranium. "The key to nuclear technology is ...

Shabana Basij-Rasikh, Afghan education activist and co-founder of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan, will deliver Barnard’s 2025 Commencement address on Tuesday, the college announced in a ...

Iranian media praises the murder of Israeli embassy staff in D.C. as the Trump administration weighs a nuclear deal with Iran ...

Truck drivers in Iran continued a nearly week-long strike on Wednesday, incensed by low salaries, high insurance rates, and a ...

Last week, two young Israeli Embassy staff members, Sarah Milgram and Yaron Lischinsky, were “allegedly” assassinated ...

"Our dear brother Elias Rodriguez, who killed two Israelis in the U.S., has founded the Washington Basij," the newspaper wrote Saturday. The Basij is an Iranian para-military organization that is ...

Every operation faces threats not only from the regime’s security forces but also from Basij militia operatives who masquerade as queer individuals to infiltrate networks, heightening the peril ...

Those protests were met with a heavy reaction by the police and the Basij, the all-volunteer force of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. In 2019, anger over the government eliminating the ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends the Great Conference of Basij members at Azadi stadium in Tehran, Oct. 4, 2018. Iran’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...