B ased on social media posts and news stories, Afghan Witness estimates there were about 100 reported detainments of women ...

Following 9/11, former first lady of the US, Laura Bush, said, ‘The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.’ Except, it wasn’t.

In the documentary Bread and Roses, filmed on mobile phones, exiled filmmaker Sahra Mani portrays three Afghan women risking ...

LONDON, - When the Taliban suddenly shut nursing and midwifery schools across Afghanistan this month, a handful of students in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif removed their white coats and set ...

Banned from much work, high school and speaking in public, women are subject to ever-worsening oppression at the hands of the Taliban. Zahra Joya meets the activists staging small acts of resistance ...

Findings from interviews with 38 former Taliban detainees have been shared with the UN special rapporteur for Afghanistan.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council said Friday it was deeply concerned about the recent decision by ...

Many veterans, service members and officials in the Defense Department worry that decades of progress could be unraveled in a ...

Journalists at Arezo TV are detained as Kabul office is sealed over Taliban claim that station produced 'vulgar' content ...

A Dutch court on Wednesday sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison for joining Islamic State in Syria and keeping a Yazidi woman as slave.

ISLAMABAD: The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday sent 17 PTI activists arrested during the D-Chowk protests on Nov 24 to ...

When she heard the stunning news that rebels had brought an end to Syria's decades-old regime, Hayat al-Turki headed for a ...