After a ban on senior school and university education for girls, a new Taliban diktat bars women from medical education. It's another setback for women and also for Afghanistan which is already ...

The South African High Commissioner to the Republic of Mauritius, Hlamalani Manzini, has alerted a delegation from the ...

The Supreme Court that dismantled Roe v. Wade now holds transgender rights in its hands, as a new generation of activists ...

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.

Ms. Mohammadi is a political prisoner who has been sentenced to lashings and a total of more than 30 years in prison on charges that include spreading propaganda against the state.

Today is International Human Rights Day, Normally, it should be an occasion to celebrate the work of those who strive to ...

What remains of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria could gain new life after Bashar al-Assad's fall, potentially claiming territory and freeing its fighters in the Kurdish-controlled northeast.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin discusses potential pardons by President Biden and calls for investigations into the Jan. 6 Committee and the Afghanistan pullout.

President-elect Donald Trump’s appointee to head the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, has questioned the wisdom of women in combat. The debate has lit up the network of women veterans, in Maryland and ...

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

An Air Force veteran serving 11 years in prison for aggravated DUI in a fatal Woodford County crash must be resentenced ...

When he returned home in 2011, after a five-year stint in an American-run prison camp in Iraq, it was as the emissary of ...