Five years after the Taliban returned to power and imposed their archaic version of Sharia law, our special correspondent in ...

Hundreds of supporters gathered outside the former US embassy, with flowers thrown down from military helicopters. Critics of the Taliban, however, fear worsening human rights abuses.

Four young girls, matching white headscarves and black skirts, sat side by side on a low wall along a roadside. The children ...

When politicians from South Africa’s main opposition party put a stuffed giraffe’s head into a sinkhole, their plan was to ...

A Taliban takeover will leave Pakistan more vulnerable to extremism at home and potentially more isolated on the world stage, ...

The Book Thief, Hamnet, Kafka on the Shore, The Diary of a Young Girl, and more make up our list of the most heartbreaking ...

The United Nations says Afghan women and girls are entering their fifth year of near-total exclusion from public life, while ...

Five years after the Taliban returned to power, Afghan women and girls face sweeping restrictions on education, work, ...

KABUL: More than 700 trucks carrying international humanitarian aid arrived in Afghanistan via Pakistan despite a near-total ...

Twenty one million women now face the world’s most severe systemic and institutionalised denial of human rights while the world turns its ...

Taking back its decision, as Javad Niazi put it, is what the new German government, comprising the conservative bloc of ...