The Taliban has released a video of an interrogation of a girl who passed as a boy. It's an age-old practice in this ...

From Afghanistan to Ukraine to Palestine and Iran, the pattern is consistent: war reshapes societies in ways that disproportionately harm women and children ...

Th Afghan rapper's journey is a call to action, urging women to support one another and the world to take responsibility for ...

Tommy Mottola has a new host of problems to deal with. The music mogul appears hundreds of times in the Epstein Files, painting the picture of a close friendship with the now-dead convict. The more ...

When 15-year-old Geeta Jadhav disappeared from her home during last year’s monsoon, her teacher, Suvarna Gaikwad, already knew what had happened. Geeta had been married off to Prashant Koli, a boy ...

In 2014, the County Clerk's Office in San Diego County issued a marriage license to a 16-year-old who was marrying a 25-year-old. In 2015, the clerk signed off on a marriage license for a 33-year-old ...

At first glance, the criminal code appears to be a typical legal framework. But the state’s goal is not to protect citizens, but to control them. But for Afghans, the war did not end; it only changed.

The beginning of 2026 has been one of turmoil in the Middle East due to serious divisions inside the Taliban leadership, according to a recent BBC investigation. The report paints a picture that show ...

Can the Donald Trump administration stomach the short-term political costs of engaging with Afghanistan for the long-term benefit of US influence in Central Asia? Before Afghanistan in 2021, America ...

Rosalyn Yellin, star of Netflix’s newest reality show, Members Only: Palm Beach, said she became a child bride when she moved to Israel to get away from her abusive father. The world was introduced to ...

Last week, as the Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid triumphantly declared 2025 “a year of diplomatic success,” the claim was received with predictable laud from the movement’s echo chambers. But ...

Magnus Marsden has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The Taliban’s morality police recently summoned four young men in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan for ...