KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Just running errands in the mainly Hazara neighborhoods of west Kabul can be dangerous. One day last week, Adila Khiari and her two daughters went out to buy new curtains.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The prospects for Afghanistan’s election on Thursday are murky, at best. The Taliban are threatening to disrupt the vote in areas south and east of Kabul, where they are strong, and say that they will ...

Fifteen men will contest Afghanistan’s presidential election on September 28 in a race among old power brokers -- ex-government officials, prominent technocrats, and a notorious former warlord. The ...

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 ...