A Hazara Afghan family looks on in front of their cave in the old city of Bamiyan, some 200km from Kabul. - AFP Bamiyan - The ancient caves lining the Bamiyan valley in central Afghanistan were ...

after heavy fighting in Bamiyan. On December 28, 2000, Hizb-i Wahdat and Harakat-i Islami forces again occupied Yakaolang. The few Taliban defenders fled. 6 2 The term Hazara, as used in this ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Authorities of the counter-narcotics department have destroyed 10.5 tons of illegal drugs in central Afghanistan's Bamiyan province, the provincial police ...

The jihadists have repeatedly targeted the historically persecuted Shiite Hazara community, considering them heretics. Hazaras make up the majority of the population in Bamiyan province ...

With the support of her daughter, she opens a small textile business: she searches for traditional Hazara embroideries in the Bamiyan region and turns them into modern dresses to sell in Kabul." ...