Thousands of families from the Hazara ethnic group in Afghanistan, forced to flee their homes after a Taliban military campaign in the country’s Balkhab district last month, are now in a dire ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. Aug 12, 2024, 04:14pm EDT Aug 17, 2024, 09:09am EDT A teenage girl ...

The Taliban beat him for being Hazara. He spent his life savings to smuggle his family to Turkey — climbing over its border wall — to find a... His Family Fled Afghanistan. In Turkey, Other Afghans ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In late December 2023, 16-year-old Zahra* said a goodbye to her mother as she left home wearing a long, ankle-length dress. She went to her cousin’s shop in west Kabul, home to more than one million ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A week of fighting between Taliban militants and fighters loyal to a commander from the mainly Shi'ite Hazara minority has heightened fears of a dangerous new phase ...

Amid this reorientation, Iran has quietly begun to court Afghanistan. This week, Abbas Araghchi conducted the first official visit to Kabul by an Iranian foreign minister in eight years, and the first ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Unknown gunmen kidnapped 12 ethnic minority Hazaras from a car in east Afghanistan, days after suspected Taliban fighters kidnapped and killed four Hazaras in the same province, ...