This is, in essence, a gender apartheid, and that’s exactly what Afghan women activists and other humant rights experts are ...

Victoria was at a soft play area with her little son, enjoying the day while her elder son was away on holiday. When the older brother returned, he wanted to surprise his younger sibling. Quietly ...

With a ball of snow in hand, residents of southeast Louisiana are continuing to enjoy large amounts of snow in their area.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Biden administration has been in talks with the Taliban to exchange Americans detained in Afghanistan for Afghans in U.S. custody, a senior Taliban leader with direct ...

Dr. Alexander Elder named his first indicator Elder-Ray because it is designed to see through the market like an X-ray machine. Developed in 1989, the indicator can be applied to any security chart.

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping the country’s women, the chief of a top aid agency warned Sunday. Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee ...

Back in 2000, following a meeting with Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban envoy to Pakistan, Vijay K Nambiar, India’s High Commissioner to Islamabad at the time, assessed the chances of engagement ...

In December 2021, two months after becoming a couple, Rauf was taken hostage by the Taliban. Cannold wasn’t sure she’d ever see him again and had to deal with his family, who she met for the ...

India's engagement with the Taliban-led Afghan government is redefining South Asia's political landscape. A significant meeting between India and the Taliban discussed trade through Iran's ...

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