The Return Of Pro-Iranian Militia Fighters To Afghanistan Fuels Fears In Kabul, Washington
Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty February 7, 2020 When Syria’s civil war erupted, Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) recruited, trained, and deployed thousands of Shi’ite fighters to prop up the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Among them was the Fatemiyoun Brigade, comprised mainly of Afghans from the country’s Shi’ite Hazara minority. From