Thousands of people have been forced from their homes and land by Taliban officials in several provinces across Afghanistan in what appears to be collective punishment, illegal under international law, the Guardian reports.

At least eight people have been killed after two separate bomb blasts ripped through minibuses near a Shia Hazara neighborhood in the Afghan capital Kabul.

Hundreds of mourners from Pakistan’s Shia Hazara Muslim community defy official calls for a fourth day to end their sit-in protest and bury the bodies of miners recently killed in a brutal attack by Daesh.

Accidents involving discarded weapons are not uncommon in Pakistan's northwest.

Thousands of mourners from the Shia Hazara Muslim community say they will continue a protest sit-in alongside the bodies of the miners recently killed by Daesh terrorists in the troubled southwestern Pakistan.