Afghanistan: The Taliban have introduced a controversial new family law in the country, triggering global concern over the ...

The Taliban has formally legitimized child marriages under a twisted new family law decree that sets out rules for marriages ...

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Rights organizations warned new marriage regulations in Afghanistan could legitimize child marriage and further weaken ...

The new regulations say that marriages involving female children may later be annulled after puberty, but only with the approval of a Taliban court. | World News ...

The United Nations and rights groups say Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have detained at least three journalists on ...

The new law lays out rules on a range of family matters, including child marriage, missing spouses, allegations of adultery, ...

Young Afghans share with researchers how social anxiety, loneliness, and depression lingered long after fleeing the Taliban ...

ANKARA, Turkey — Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to maintain a ceasefire following peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry announced Thursday, after a dialogue between the two sides ...

"My children went to bed hungry three nights in a row. My wife was crying, so were my children. So I begged a neighbour for ...

The Afghan Taliban's dreaded morality police have arrested four young men for dressing like characters from the British TV series Peaky Blinders. The men were detained in the western Afghan city of ...