Afghanistan’s leader has exerted full control over a city that once enjoyed looser social norms, even under Taliban rule.

HERAT, Afghanistan — Businesses in Afghanistan’s western city of Herat have suffered from a downturn in female customers ...

Authorities say dozens of militants overnight attacked a police post overnight in insurgency-hit southwestern Pakistan, ...

In an essay written years ago, I rhetorically claimed that certain illnesses do not get enough resources because they are gender-specific — women dying or ailing, because of endometriosis, for example ...

A former Taliban commander has been sentenced in New York to 42 years in prison for crimes including the 2008 kidnapping of a ...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers deny shooting at protesters and claim no women or girls have been arrested because they're all following strict dress code rules.

Child marriage has long been a problem in Afghanistan. A 2021 UNICEF report estimated that 28% of Afghan women aged 15–49 years were married before the age of 18. A new decree issued by the Taliban's ...

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 ...