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Emran Feroz is an Afghan-Austrian journalist currently based in Stuttgart, Germany. He is regularly writing from Afghanistan, often focusing on the Middle East, Central Asia, drone warfare, refugee policies and human rights. Emran is writing in both German and English. His work has already appeared in international media outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Intercept, Alternet, The Atlantic or the New York Times and in various German and Austrian news papers and magazines.
How ISIS In Afghanistan Ended The Year With Another Bloodshed
In Kabul, 2017 ended with another massacre.
Last Thursday, more than 40 people were killed by an ISIS attack near a compound containing the Afghan Voice news agency, the Tebyan Shia cultural centre and a religious school.
One of the victims was 18-year-old Parwaiz Alim.
He left home without telling his mother that he was heading to the cultural centre. He did not know that she would not see him ever again.
"My heart has been burning since then. Why my son? ISIS, I am asking you, why my son? Afghan government, I am asking you, why my son? He never hurt anyone", Shafiqa, Parwaiz' mother, said.
Like her, dozens of other families are in deep grief. Most of the victims were members of the Shiite Hazara. Hazara Afghans are a minority in Afghanistan and have become a target of ISIS extremists over the last months.
ISIS or "Islamic State Khorasan Province", as its Afghan cell is called, conducted at least seven suicide bombings in Kabul since October 20, killing more than 130 people in total. This reality proves that ISIS has become a real threat, also in Afghanistan's urban areas.
