Afghanistan has never been a strongly unified nation, but ethnic divisions intensified during the Soviet Union occupation of the 1980s, when resistance factions organized along ethnic lines.

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan — The sunbaked, shell-pocked ruins of west Kabul stand as silent testament to what happened the last time Afghanistan splintered along ethnic lines. The country ...

Two rival ethnic groups in Afghanistan -- the Pashtuns from the south and ethnic Tajiks from the northern Panshir Valley -- are fighting beside U.S. troops as part of a military operation against ...

In late 2001,when U.S. forces expelled the Taliban from Afghanistan, the country appeared headed for a breakup. The United States and the rest of the international community feared that Afghanistan's ...

Afghanistan’s Tatar community has been largely forgotten over the centuries. But now, the Turkic-speaking ethnic group is gaining greater recognition in the war-torn country.

But while the White House tries to get the Taliban to share power in Afghanistan's government, securing a peace deal's approval from the country's multitude of ethnic groups will be another challenge.

KABUL—Fears of ethnic strife were rekindled in Afghanistan on Sunday, the day after a group of ethnic minority Hazaras were kidnapped while traveling a major highway in the latest attack ...

nti-Taliban ethnic and tribal groups are set to meet in Bonn, Germany, Tuesday to begin working out arrangements under United Nations auspices for a broad-based interim government in Afghanistan ...

Esmatullah Hassanzada, a 31-year-old software engineer now living in Brazil, is a Hazara, an Afghan ethnic group that has suffered oppression from the Taliban. (Courtesy of Esmatullah Hassanzada) ...

Despite ethnic quotas and recruiting drives, the Afghan army is still dominated by northern minorities who were oppressed by the Taliban.

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan — The sunbaked, shell-pocked ruins of west Kabul stand as silent testament to what happened the last time Afghanistan splintered along ethnic lines. The country ...