Writer and activist Arundhati Roy has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2024. This is an annual award set up by English PEN ...

Afghanistan, under Taliban control, is a powder keg ready to erupt with consequences that will ripple throughout the region and the world. The driving forces of this impending disaster are deeply ...

Widow of Shah Zafar with her children in Bedmishkin village. Shah Zafar, his brother Sayd Ibrahim, his nephew Khadam and many other relatives were killed on Jan. 9, 2001. The widows are now living in ...

The Taliban executed an unarmed civilian, Najibullah, in Balkh province, despite video evidence showing he posed no threat.

The Taliban recently imposed additional restrictions on media organizations in Afghanistan, prohibiting criticism of their ...

Afghanistan is at risk of a polio outbreak, health officials have warned, after the Taliban suspended the vaccination campaign over security fears and restrictions on women. The World Health ...

Last month the Taliban published a new consolidated code of religious laws. It has left Afghan women reeling, with many now searching for ways to leave. It also has implications for the Taliban’s ...

The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), affiliated with ISIS, has claimed responsibly for killing 14 men in Daikundi province this week, the latest attack on the Hazara community in Afghanistan.

Gunmen killed a group of civilians in central Afghanistan on Thursday, the interior ministry said, in an attack that was claimed by the local chapter of the Islamic State group. “Fifteen Shiite ...