The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on Friday that gender and nationality alone were sufficient for a country to grant asylum to women from Afghanistan, where the ruling Taliban have sharply ...

India will join the 6th round of Moscow Format talks on Afghanistan, with a focus on regional security and counter-terrorism.

The Taliban have enacted laws that violate human rights since they returned to power. But a new edict goes further.

The case is being brought under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, which was ...

Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee are moving Tuesday to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt ...

Actress Meryl Streep said that “in Kabul a female cat has more freedom than a woman” while speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York City on September 23, where activists called ...

After two decades of U.S.-sponsored mayhem in the Hindu Kush, all the region wants is to recoup the missed opportunities of ...

The day before the big meeting starts was full of hints as to the agenda in the days to come: — World leaders spoke at an ...

By bne Tehran bureau Suhail Shaheen, head of the Taliban's political office in Qatar, has criticised the exclusion of the ...

There are separate talks taking place hosted by the UN and Qatar. But here, too, the hosts agreed to the Taliban’s demands that no women’s organizations be represented and that the agenda for ...

The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the UN said on Monday. It's a devastating setback for polio eradication, since the virus is one of the world's most infectious ...

The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the U.N. said Monday. It’s a devastating setback for polio eradication, since the virus is one of the world’s most infectious and ...