An explosion in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killed one person and injured 11 others, Taliban police spokesman Khalid Zadran told RFE/RL on August 11, an attack apparently targeting the country’s ...

Inadequate protections by the de-facto Taliban authorities in Afghanistan continue to leave the Shia-Hazara community at risk and contribute to their plight, according a report released Friday by ...

Comprising between 10 to 20 percent of the country’s 38-million people, Hazaras have been marginalised for their largely Shiite faith – Copyright AFP WAKIL KOHSAR ...

Ongoing and systematic persecution of Afghanistan’s Hazara community meets the standard of genocide, according to a report published September 1 by the New Lines Institute (NLI). The report focuses on ...

A regional branch of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in central Afghanistan targeting Shi'ite pilgrims. The Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) group on ...

West of the Afghan city of Maidan Shahr is a 40-kilometre stretch of paved highway known as "Death Road", where drivers say the country's ethnic Hazara minority are slaughtered by militants "like ...

Bronze Medallist Zakia Khudadadi of Refugee Paralympic Team celebrates with the Refugee Paralympic Team flag after winning the Women's Taekwondo K44 47kg bronze medal contest against Naoual Laarif of ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials said kidnappers on Monday released 19 hostages out of a group of 30 that was kidnapped in February, all members of the Hazara ethnic community from the ...

Afghan police on Novemer 11 fired into the air to drive back protesters who tried to climb the walls of a building near the president's palace, as anger boiled over about the beheading of seven ...