Hazara Protest

The death countof a suicide bombing on a Kabul classroom has risen to 35, the UN said Saturday, as Shiite Hazara women who bore the brunt of the attack staged a defiant protest against the "genocide" of their minority community.

Dozens of women from Afghanistan's minority Hazara community protested in the capital Saturday after a suicide bombing a day earlier killed 20 people -- mostly young women from the ethnic group.

At least three people were killed when a suicide attacker blew himself up in Kabul Monday, close to where scores of Afghans had been protesting against Taliban attacks on the minority Hazara ethnic group.

At least 80 people were killed and more than 230 wounded Saturday when attackers detonated explosives amid a huge crowd of peaceful protesters in the Afghan capital, most of them from the country's Shiite ethnic Hazara minority, Afghan officials said.

ISIS group terrorists claimed responsibility for twin explosions today that ripped through crowds of Shiite Hazaras in Kabul, killing at least 80 people and wounding 231 others in their first major attack in the Afghan capital.

Authorities locked down Afghanistan's capital Monday as tens of thousands of members of an ethnic minority group marched through the streets to protest the proposed route of a power line.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani appealed for calm after angry protesters from the ethnic Hazara minority tried to force their way into his Kabul palace on Wednesday to demand justice for seven members of their community beheaded by Islamist militants.

Warning shots were fired outside the presidential palace in Kabul today, where thousands of people are protesting the gruesome beheadings of seven Shia Hazaras, Afghan police said.

Thousands of members of Afghanistan's Hazara ethnic minority demonstrated today against government inaction over the killing of seven members of their community by Islamist militants who dumped their partially beheaded bodies.

Around 2,000 members of Afghanistan's Hazara ethnic minority held an angry protest today after militants killed seven members of their community at the weekend and dumped their partially beheaded bodies.

The death countof a suicide bombing on a Kabul classroom has risen to 35, the UN said Saturday, as Shiite Hazara women who bore the brunt of the attack staged a defiant protest against the "genocide" of their minority community.

Dozens of women from Afghanistan's minority Hazara community protested in the capital Saturday after a suicide bombing a day earlier killed 20 people -- mostly young women from the ethnic group.

At least three people were killed when a suicide attacker blew himself up in Kabul Monday, close to where scores of Afghans had been protesting against Taliban attacks on the minority Hazara ethnic group.

At least 80 people were killed and more than 230 wounded Saturday when attackers detonated explosives amid a huge crowd of peaceful protesters in the Afghan capital, most of them from the country's Shiite ethnic Hazara minority, Afghan officials said.

ISIS group terrorists claimed responsibility for twin explosions today that ripped through crowds of Shiite Hazaras in Kabul, killing at least 80 people and wounding 231 others in their first major attack in the Afghan capital.

Authorities locked down Afghanistan's capital Monday as tens of thousands of members of an ethnic minority group marched through the streets to protest the proposed route of a power line.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani appealed for calm after angry protesters from the ethnic Hazara minority tried to force their way into his Kabul palace on Wednesday to demand justice for seven members of their community beheaded by Islamist militants.

Warning shots were fired outside the presidential palace in Kabul today, where thousands of people are protesting the gruesome beheadings of seven Shia Hazaras, Afghan police said.

Thousands of members of Afghanistan's Hazara ethnic minority demonstrated today against government inaction over the killing of seven members of their community by Islamist militants who dumped their partially beheaded bodies.

Around 2,000 members of Afghanistan's Hazara ethnic minority held an angry protest today after militants killed seven members of their community at the weekend and dumped their partially beheaded bodies.