How ethnic and religious divides in Afghanistan are contributing to violence against minorities
- Written by: Abdulkader Sinno, Associate Professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies, Indiana University
A powerful explosion Oct. 8, 2021, in a mosque in northern Afghanistan left several deadAP Photo/Abdullah SahilClose to a hundred Afghan Shiite Muslims were killed in attacks on mosques in October 2021. One such attack took place on Oct. 15, when a group of suicide bombers detonated explosives at a mosque in Kandahar. Just over a week before that,...