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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 ...
The fact that Afghan resistance groups are often led by members of the former Afghan government can be a liability that prevents them from gaining support from abroad, said Bill Roggio, a senior ...
While jihadi groups such as the Islamic State present a threat to the Taliban's Islamic Emirate on one front, a number of rebel groups are also locked in combat with rulers of Afghanistan, who are ...
The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, twenty years after their ouster by U.S. troops. Under their harsh rule, they have cracked down on women’s rights and neglected basic services.
The group also claimed responsibility for the April 21 suicide bombing of one of Afghanistan’s largest Shia mosques, Seh Dokan Mosque in Mazar-e Sharif, which killed 31 people and wounded 87 others.
Taliban security forces confront Afghan women marching during a demonstration they call "Stop Hazara genocide," a day after a suicide bomb attack at a higher education center in Kabul's Dasht-e ...
The world is ignoring ethnic cleansing in Afghanistan — again by Mohammad Musa Mahmodi, opinion contributor - 01/14/23 11:00 AM ET ...
This Hazara refugee and his family fled Taliban violence almost four years ago, hoping to arrive on Australian shores. Now ...
The threat posed by the ISIL-K is reflected in the group’s attacks targeting Taliban authorities and religious and ethnic minorities in Afghanistan, as well as terrorist attacks as far away as ...