In Afghanistan, candidates for the Aug. 20 presidential election are employing many political strategies common in the West, including wooing the minority vote. But only one minority group in ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials said kidnappers on Monday released 19 hostages out of a group of 30 that was kidnapped in February, all members of the Hazara ethnic community from the ...

Thousands of families from the Hazara ethnic group in Afghanistan, forced to flee their homes after a Taliban military campaign in the country’s Balkhab district last month, are now in a dire ...

Ongoing and systematic persecution of Afghanistan’s Hazara community meets the standard of genocide, according to a report published September 1 by the New Lines Institute (NLI). The report focuses on ...

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SYDNEY, May 30, 2010 - A national mobilisation by a newly-formed Australia Hazara Council today brought 1000 Hazara refugees into the streets in the centre of Sydney. They were protesting the Karzai ...

An explosion in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killed one person and injured 11 others, Taliban police spokesman Khalid Zadran told RFE/RL on August 11, an attack apparently targeting the country’s ...

A regional branch of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in central Afghanistan targeting Shi'ite pilgrims. The Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) group on ...

KABUL, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Afghan police on Wednesday fired into the air to disperse protesters who tried to scale the walls of a building near the President's palace as anger boiled over at the murder ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, July 25 -- For generations, Afghanistan's Hazara minority has occupied the humblest niche in the country's complex ethnic mosaic. The political power structure has been dominated ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber killed 10 people when he set off explosives Friday in a crowd of Shiite Muslims near a mosque complex in Kabul, the latest attack to target ethnic and religious ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen killed eight members of Afghanistan's Hazara minority who were working as miners in the northern province of Baghlan, a local government official said. Faiz ...