This marks the first time the ICC prosecutor has built a case around the systemic crimes against women and girls. Many also see this as a rare moment of vindication for Afghan activists, who over the ...

"It's like the United States doesn't actually understand what I did for this country, it's a betrayal," Abdullah tells the BBC.He fled Afghanistan with his parents amid the US withdrawal in August ...

While the release of Ryan Corbett and William Wallace McKenty is to be celebrated, Americans Mahmood Habibi and George Glezmann remain in Taliban custody.

In our news wrap Thursday, California firefighters are battling new fires in the Los Angeles area, Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma and the family who owns it will pay up to $7.4 billion to settle ...

A new restaurant in Oakland is seeking to bring the cuisine of Afghanistan to new heights. Jaji, co-owned by Sophia Akbar and Paul Iglesias of Parche, walks the line between familiar and iconoclastic, ...

Baldor has covered the Pentagon and national security issues for The Associated Press since 2005. She has reported from all over the world including warzones in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.

Karim Khan said that a crime against humanity was being committed by top officials against “Afghan women and girls, as well as the LGBTQI+ community.” ...

Nasir has barely slept in the three days since he learned that President Donald Trump was indefinitely suspending refugee admissions into the U.S. A former lieutenant colonel with the Afghan Army and ...

Trump said domestic and international challenges over the last four years would not have happened had he been president.

Retired Ambassador Ryan Crocker, a career diplomat, spoke to a hometown audience on Monday evening at a regular meeting of the Republicans of Spokane County. Crocker, who was born in Spokane, Wash., ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor’s applications for arrest warrants against two senior Taliban leaders is a milestone in seeking justice for serious abuses against women and girls in ...

Nutrition is one major area of mounting concern. UNICEF works with partners all across South Asia in an effort to reduce malnutrition and improve overall nutrition, by strengthening nutrition support ...