The barbaric tradition, whose name translates to 'boy play', has persisted for centuries. Afghanistan's current Taliban ...

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Here’s a look at Bowe Bergdahl, former American prisoner of war. Personal Birth date: March 28, 1986 Birth place: Sun Valley, Idaho Birth name: Beaudry Robert Bergdahl Father: Robert Bergdahl Mother: ...

The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir in 2009, accusing him of masterminding genocide, crimes against humanity ...

The customary sexual - and not only - abuse of young boys in Afghanistan - Children as young as 10 years old are dressed in women's clothes and turned into sex slaves for the country's elite ...

A January 2025 SIGAR report emphasized that the Taliban—whom the US does not recognize as Afghanistan’s government and has ...

Jere Van Dyk is the author of "In Afghanistan" and a former reporter for The New York Times. In the early 1980s he covered the Afghan-Soviet war, living with the Afghan rebels. He received a Pulitzer ...

Israel is accused of crimes against humanity after the onslaught on the Palestinian enclave. But how does it differ from ...

As director of the Taliban’s Taxpayers Services Directorate, Abdul Qahar Ghorbandi has the unenviable task of raising revenue for the government of a wretchedly poor, isolated nation.