Israel's military claims strikes on Iran eliminated over 20 military officials, including commanders, amidst escalating ...

Iran confirmed the deaths of senior officials, including the army chief and the head of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, along ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They are members of the Basij, paramilitary volunteers who are fiercely loyal to the Islamic Republic. The shock troops of the ayatollahs have taken on a leading role in quashing dissent for more ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - A member of an Iranian pro-government paramilitary organisation Basij was stabbed to death in the northeastern city of Mashhad on Wednesday, two semi-official Iranian news ...

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 ...