Mahbooba Faiz grew up hearing about her mother's shock and horror at being married at just 10 years old. As the Taliban reintroduces child marriage in Afghanistan, she urges the world to act ...

The latest decree from Afghanistan’s rulers makes it impossible for women and girls to leave unwanted or abusive relationships, even with family support ...

Buried beneath one of Afghanistan's most significant archaeological sites lies one of the world's largest untapped copper deposits, and China is determined to mine it. This is the story of a $5 ...

Rolling Stone reported on the general and the soldier he helped during the United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan ...

Afghanistan's women's cricket team, forced into exile after the Taliban banned women from playing sport, was received by King ...

Taliban forces opened fire on people gathered for a rare protest in Afghanistan's western Herat province Tuesday, killing at least one woman and a child, according to CBS News' partner network BBC.

Afghanistan’s Taliban government used live fire to disperse a protest in the western city of Herat over new restrictions on women, eyewitnesses told RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi. One eyewitness said that at ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The first image Sara Wahedi ever had of the Taliban was of a woman ...

The United Nations said it was “deeply concerned” about the arrests of dozens of women, and reported that two people were killed in protests organized to support them. By Yaqoob Akbary and Zane Irwin ...

A former Taliban commander was sentenced to 42 years in prison on Tuesday for crimes including kidnapping a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and providing support that led to the deaths of three ...