Both under the previous Ashraf Ghani administration and now under Taliban rule, Shia Hazaras have mostly been left unprotected as back-to-back attacks rocked their community to the core.

The Hazaras, a minority ethnic group in Afghanistan, have faced a long history of persecution and discrimination. Being primarily Shia Muslims in a predominately Sunni Muslim country, they have been ...

Last Wednesday the UK Parliament held its first-ever debate dedicated to genocide against the Hazaras, a mainly Shia Muslim community in Afghanistan and Pakistan often targeted for their Asiatic ...

Hazaras constitute the country’s third-largest ethnic group and largest religious minority community due to their Shia Muslim faith in the Sunni majority country.

Attacks against Hazaras — largely Shia Muslims who have been historically persecuted by Sunni militant groups — have increased significantly in the past year since the Taliban takeover.

Shia brothers: Sunnis in Afghanistan will attend your funeral, but the Lebanese Shia will not.” At his home in West Kabul, Behsudi was, however, keen to note that Hazaras had not yet given the ...

BILAL SARWARY: Well, the Hazaras and Shias are the beating heart of Afghanistan. This is a community that has invested in education.

Nearly all the 85 killed and 216 injured were Shia Hazaras.” In India, Secretary Blinken noted “rising attacks on people and places of worship.” ...

In 2021, ISIS-K claimed responsibility for 13 attacks against the Hazaras (an ethnic Shia group native to and primarily residing in the Hazaristan region in central Afghanistan), in addition to three ...

During both events, the victims were primarily Hazaras, a Shia Muslim ethnic group, previously targeted by Taliban forces for abuse. Afghan humanitarian aid workers were also killed.

Each time Hussain Rahimi leaves his Kabul home for the mosque to pray, he recites the Kalima - a short verse that is the central tenet of Islam - because he is not sure he will come home alive.

To protest continued attacks on the Hazaras in Afghanistan, members of this community in Rome re-enacted the suicide bombing that killed 53 people near Kabul. The demonstration took place on Oct. 10.