In Afghanistan, boys are often seen not as children needing protection, but as “young men” who must provide for their families, even when they are still children themselves. Some are forced into ...

When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021, Aman and Zaynab encouraged their children to keep going to school. (For their safety, the couple asked that pseudonyms be used for this ...

Millions of Afghans are struggling as international aid cuts sever a lifeline many relied on for food and heating.

In many families of Afghanistan, the birth of a girl is mourned. While boys are seen as blessings, girls are considered burdens and forced to live a strict life of limited options. They can't leave ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — A 12-year-old Afghan boy starring in the upcoming film “The Kite Runner” fears he and his family could be ostracized or even attacked because of a rape scene that he says he ...

The plight of two teenage Afghan boys last week put a new international spotlight on the inhumanity of Australia’s indefinite detention of asylum seekers. After a desperate breakout from the remote ...

The U.S. Treasury announced new sanctions over the weekend against two Taliban regime officials in Afghanistan, accusing the men of roles in the systemic "repression of women and girls." The Treasury ...

President Ashraf Ghani, addressing revulsion at the widespread sexual abuse of boys by powerful Afghan commanders, pledged Wednesday that his government would do what it could to stamp out a practice ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Fawad Mohammadi has spent half his life peddling maps and dictionaries to foreigners on a street of trinket shops in Kabul. Now the 14-year-old Afghan boy with bright green ...

How Corruption Makes Everything Harder The New York Times' Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti and Dexter Filkins write, "Afghanistan emerges as a looking-glass land where bribery, extortion and embezzlement ...

In a new book, journalist Jenny Nordberg writes about the bacha posh, young girls who dress up like boys to enjoy the freedoms of being an Afghan... Why Afghanistan's 'Underground Girls' Skirt ...