Major damage to the holy shrine of Imam Hussain (a.s) and Hazrat Abbas occurs as Karbala experiences violent reprisals by the army of Saddam Hussein in 1991.

The first international halal fair and forum will be held in Sarajevo from May 15 to 17, Xinhua news agency quoted local media as saying.

Ayatollah Emami Kashani flight to Najaf to partitipate and give a speech in Imam Mahdi (a.s) conference.

Senior Shiite cleric Ayatollah Vaez Tabasi, member of Expediency Discernment Council and the custodian of of Astan Quds Razavi in Mashhad, for the first time visited holy shrine of Imam Ali (A) in the city of Najaf-Iraq.

On the way to Mena, two miles from the Holy City of Mecca, on Jabl an-Nur is the Cave of Hera, a small opening about 3.5 meters long and a little over 1.5 meters wide. Here Prophet Muhammad (blessings of God upon him and his progeny) used to pray to the One and Only God and meditate in solitude away from the polytheist society of Arabia. Here, on the 27th of Rajab in 609 AD, he received the first divine revelation through the Archangel Gabriel and was commanded to formally declare his mission as the Last and Final Messenger of God.

A car bomb blast has hit a convoy of vehicles carrying US-led foreign forces in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

Every year on May 15, Palestinians all over the world hold demonstrations to commemorate Nakba Day, which marks the anniversary of the forcible eviction of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland by Israelis and the creation of Israel in 1948. On May 15, 1948, Israeli forces displaced some 700,000 Palestinians, forcing them to flee to different neighboring countries. Israeli soldiers also wiped nearly 500 Palestinian villages and towns off the map, leaving an estimated total of 4.7 million Palestinian refugees and their descendants dreaming of an eventual return to their ancestral homeland more than six decades later.

Grand Shia source of emulation Ayatollah Sayyed Ezzeddin Hosseini-Zanjani passed away Tuesday morning.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei addresses thousands of people from the Iranian provinces of Mazandaran, Gilan, Golestan and Kohkilouyeh Boyer-Ahmad, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

Hundreds of people commemorated martyrdom of Imam Hadi at holy shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf - Iraq yesterday 14.5.2013.

KADHMIYA, Iraq- Thousands of Ahlul Bayt followers commemorated martyrdom of Imam Hadi, at holy shrines of Imam Javad and Imam Kadhim on Tuesday 14.5.2013.