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 ...

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 ...

PAKISTAN Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf ordered a "targeted military operation" against Sunni extremists in the southwest city of Quetta yesterday as thousands of Shia Hazaras continued to ...

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 ...

The brutal tactics that the Islamic State of Khorasan is directing against Hazaras under the Taliban recall the darkest days of Afghanistan’s history.

Hazaras are a mainly Shi’ite community, several thousand of whom have fled to Sweden in recent years to escape abuse and poverty in marginalised communities in Afghanistan and Iran.

March 1, 2024: American airstrikes continue to be used against Afghan mercenaries serving in the Iranian Fatemiyoun Brigade to battle for Shia Islam. These Shia Afghans join the brigade for the money, ...

Why are they not attacking any other community?” he asked. The historically marginalised Hazaras comprise between 10 to 20 percent of Afghanistan’s 38 million citizens.

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.

A view of the bloody books and supplies that left from Friday's suicide bomber attack on a Hazara education center, Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Afghanistan's Hazaras, who are ...