AhlulBayt News Agency

[1] In the year 2005, the secretary General of the Ahl Al-Bayt World Assembly recognized that there should be an exclusive website that can fully dedicate its time to make sure all Shiite communities remain aware of the developments around them.

Subsequently, and by the inauguration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ABNA became an official news agency operating in 20 (25 as of now) languages with full-time employees.

[2] People in ABNA are given the task to constantly observe the developments in Iraq, Syria, Nigeria and other areas where issues related to Shiite communities and often other minorities (including non-Shias) are unfolding.

[4] ABNA is licensed by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance (Iran) and is run by Sayyid Ali Reza Husseini as its managing director.

ABNA is already available in 25 languages including Urdu, Farsi, Turkish, English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, German, Bengali, Azeri, Latin, Cyrillic, Indonesian, Hindi, Swahili, Malaysian, Bosnian, Burmese,[5] and Hausa.