This week, Shiite Muslims around the world have been marking Ashura, commemorating the 7th century death of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson. Shiites are a minority in Afghanistan, but this year the ...

Ethnic chauvinism, which has long bedeviled this fiercely tribal country and fueled a destructive civil war in the early 1990s, is erupting again in a tense dispute over recent parliamentary elections ...

In the video of the bombing of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul airport Aug. 26, we see hundreds of people milling about a long concrete expanse, their belongings piled high and kept ...

In January 2021, Deash (Islamic State) marked the new year by murdering eleven Hazara coal miners in Quetta, Pakistan. The world press covered the story ruminating that the murders sprout from the ...

Jamilah and her six children live out in the open, exposed to the elements, with little food or water. The 45-year-old was forced by armed Taliban militants to leave her mud-brick home in a remote ...

Any understanding of the current abuses committed against Pashtuns in northern Afghanistan must take account of the severe abuses that the Taliban regime committed against non-Pashtun ethnic groups in ...

KABUL (Reuters) - 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 ...

Among the opposition soldiers who seized Mazar-e-Sharif were some 2,500 Hazaras, a Shiite group whose members were massacred by the Taliban when they took the city three years ago. "Hazaras have been ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Just running errands in the mainly Hazara neighborhoods of west Kabul can be dangerous. Earlier this month, Adila Khiari and her two daughters went out to buy new curtains. Soon ...

When the front line around Mazar-i-Sharif burst under relentless U.S. bombing, the retreating Taliban fighters knew there was only one option: to run fast and far. Retreating into Mazar-i-Sharif’s ...