Calls are growing louder among members of the Afghan capital's Hazara community to take their security into their own hands.
Members of Afghanistan’s Shi’ite minority are bracing for potential violence as they prepare to commemorate Ashura, the holiest celebration in their religious calendar.
Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency says its officers have arrested at least 26 suspected members of the extremist group Islamic State (IS), accusing them of plotting attacks on members of the Shi'ite minority.
A series of deadly militant attacks have struck sport facilities and athletes in Afghanistan, where sports have flourished in recent years.
Afganistan's Shi'ite Hazara minority is widely fearful of efforts to foment a Shi’a-Sunni divide that could plunge the country into sectarian and political rifts not seen since the fratricidal civil war of the 1990s.
The death toll from a suicide attack on a protest gathering in eastern Afghanistan has soared to 68, officials said.
The Afghan military has increased its vetting of local forces working with U.S. troops in order to minimize insider attacks, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has said.
At least 32 people have been killed and around 130 wounded in a suicide attack on a gathering of protesters in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near a procession in the Afghan capital commemorating the death of a revered resistance leader that killed at least seven people.
Afghan authorities say a suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up near a procession in Kabul commemorating the death of a revered resistance leader, injuring at least two people.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis have held talks with their counterparts in India, one day after Pompeo visited regional rival Pakistan.
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