The journey by taxi last year with her female cousin - covered from head to toe, only their eyes visible, as the rules decree ...

No, billionaires didn’t exist then. Millionaires maybe, yes. The Founding Fathers were a bit removed from the working class, ...

A new Afghan law requires girls to wait until puberty before seeking to get out of a marriage. It also requires mediation for ...

The United Nations expressed “grave concern” on Thursday about a new law issued by Afghanistan’s Taliban government on ...

In this four-minute clip, a disembodied voice asks a child in a dimly lit room: “Are you a man or a woman now?” The child looks terrified – and like she’s trying to be brave. She says she’s 13 years ...

For many Afghan women, especially those in conservative rural areas of the country, little has changed since the Taliban seized power in the country. For others, life under hard-line Islamist rule ...

(CNN) — Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have issued a draconian decree that makes sodomy punishable by death and allows men to beat their wives so long as they don’t break bones or leave visible, ...