Pakistani security forces in 2024 suffered the highest causalities in nearly a decade while battling insurgency, an Islamabad ...

Tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan have reached a boiling point, with fears of escalation to an all-out war after the ...

Afghanistan's regime takes further measures against women, ordering windows to be blocked to prevent glimpses of female ...

Nitazenes are a class of opioid drugs made up of several different substances, some of them up to 500 times stronger than ...

The Taliban government is threatening to close down all non-governmental organisations that employ women in the country. It's ...

Buildings should not have windows looking into places where women could be sitting or standing, Taliban leader orders ...

Nine UK special forces troops could be prosecuted over alleged war crimes in Syria, Ministry of Defence (MoD) figures show.

As the world looks ahead to 2025, a group of young Afghan women brave great personal risk to share their hopes and dreams for ...

Women in Afghanistan face restrictions that men do not. But the global debate around the hijab and Muslim women’s rights is ...

UN human rights chief urges Taliban to reverse ban on Afghan women working for NGOs to prevent gender apartheid.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has expressed deep alarm over Afghanistan’s recent decision to revoke ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has urged the Taliban to revoke all discriminatory orders against ...