KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan's senior Shiite community leader said on Saturday the Islamic State group is responsible for kidnapping dozens of Shiite men and boys in February. Mohammad Mohaqiq ...

The Taliban gave Gulsom two days to leave her home with her husband and their three young daughters. The 25-year-old and her family were one of hundreds of Hazara families forcibly evicted from their ...

A provincial official in Afghanistan says kidnappers have released 19 Hazara hostages abducted in February in exchange for 22 people. Ata Jan Haqbaya, a provincial council member in southern Zabul ...

The Taliban recently tortured and killed members of the Hazara ethnic minority in Afghanistan, according to Amnesty International. Amnesty said it has received “harrowing” accounts from witnesses, who ...

Amnesty International says Taliban fighters last month "massacred" and brutally tortured several members of Afghanistan's mainly Shi'ite Hazara minority, in what the watchdog called a "horrifying ...

QUETTA, Nov 12: At least three people of the Hazara community were shot dead and two others injured in an attack on a vegetable shop in Mach Bazaar, Kachhi Bolan district, on Monday. According to ...

Masked gunmen in southern Afghanistan have abducted at least 30 men from the Hazara ethnic minority, officials say. The men were travelling by bus from Iran when they were kidnapped in Zabul province, ...

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 ...

The human rights group Amnesty International has issued a report claiming that the Taliban massacred nine Hazara men following its conquest of Afghanistan’s central Ghazni province in July. The report ...

In a prisoner swap this week, a militant group released 19 of 31 Afghan Hazara men kidnapped in February. The kidnapping raised fears in this minority community of being targeted in sectarian attacks.

The land we now call Afghanistan has been a place of constant migration through its mountainous passes. Its linguistic, cultural and religious diversity is a result of millennia of trade along the ...