The group is weaponized with its own naval, aerospace, intelligence, ground, and foreign forces (Quds), along with its own militia—the parliamentary volunteers known as Basij, whose unrestricted ...

Dressed in black, the group of chanting schoolgirls in the Iranian city of Shiraz appeared determined to make themselves heard. “Basiji, go and get lost,” they shouted at a man in a gray suit ...

Iranian media praises the murder of Israeli embassy staff in D.C. as the Trump administration weighs a nuclear deal with Iran, highlighting tensions and U.S. concerns.

Basij militia forces attend a meeting with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran November 26, 2022. (photo credit: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/West Asia News Agency ...

DUBAI, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday Iran's Basij militia forces have sacrificed their lives in what he called riots, the wave of protests sparked by ...

DUBAI, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Iranian security forces, including the pro-government Basij militia, are trying to quell growing nationwide protests that erupted after a woman died in the custody of ...

Shabana Basij-Rasikh is co-founder and president of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan. Basij-Rasikh, co-founder and president of the School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA), writes about the ...

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 ...

It was started by a young Afghan woman named Shabana Basij-Rasikh, who knows firsthand the power of an education. And though they had to flee Afghanistan in a harrowing escape, we found the girls ...

Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year Shabana Basij-Rasikh was driven away by the Taliban. Undeterred, she hopes to build a global model for educating displaced children. Shabana Basij ...