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The family - who are part of Afghanistan's Hazara minority - made the difficult journey to Pakistan, where they spent a year before being granted asylum in Canada. It was, after 12 months without ...

The attack came after a relative lull in nearly a year of violence against the mainly Shi’ite Hazara minority in the province.

As they attempted to leave the city, Hazara civilians were stopped and ... targeted by the Taliban was the Hazaras, a Shi‘a minority, and to a lesser extent, other non-Pashtun ethnic groups ...

For one student - a woman, and a member of the persecuted Hazara minority, which in recent years has faced abductions and killings at the hands of the Taliban - the men outside pose even more risk.

In 2021, as the Taliban was taking over, the Hazara, an ethnic but also a religious numeric minority group, became a target yet again. Hazara places of worship, schools and hospitals came under ...

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

A minority are Ismaili Shia ... the summary execution in May 1997 of some 2,000 Taliban prisoners by ethnic Hazara and Uzbek forces, but there was also a sectarian component to the Taliban's ...

Local reports and witnesses say the explosion in Mazar-i-Sharif happened at Seh Dokan, one of the biggest mosques used locally by the Hazara minority group. The number of casualties remains fluid ...

The attack came after a relative lull in nearly a year of violence against the mainly Hazara minority in the province. In April, a market suicide bombing killed 18 people, half of whom were Hazaras.