Hazaras form a majority of the population in the central highland region of Afghanistan known as Hazarajat, and are a significant minority in the cities of Kabul and Mazar-i Sharif. 2 Most are ...

The year just ended was a tumultuous one for Afghanistan, marked by many significant ... carried out at least 19 terrorist attacks, targeting Hazara and Shia civilians, Sufi adherents, foreign ...

Previous months have seen several similar attacks. The Shia communities in Afghanistan, primarily comprising the Hazara, have been facing systematic discrimination, targeted attacks ...

The demonstrators, mostly of the Hazara ethnicity, are calling for the proposed Tutap (Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan) 500 kilovolt power transmission line to follow original ...

A group of Hazara community members are seeking a renaming of the famous Afghan Bazaar to Little Bamyan in a […] ...

ISIS-K, a Sunni extremist group established in 2015, has targeted Shi’ite Muslims in Afghanistan, particularly the Hazara ...

These families were reported to be between four and ten members each, from the Hazara ethnic group living in the Persian-speaking central region of Afghanistan. Behind the initiative was reported ...

The 37-year-old former musician fled Afghanistan in 2015 amid the persecution of the Hazara population, and arrived in Indonesia. His fears were compounded when the Taliban reportedly kidnapped ...

Hostilities between Pakistan and Afghanistan escalated, with Pakistan conducting airstrikes on Afghan territory in response to attacks by the Pakistani Taliban. The Afghan Taliban rounded out the year ...