The Taliban has released a video of an interrogation of a girl who passed as a boy. It's an age-old practice in this ...

As a Greek woman in Afghanistan, I decided to live among ordinary Afghans to get a feel of their lives, concerns, and dreams ...

Th Afghan rapper's journey is a call to action, urging women to support one another and the world to take responsibility for ...

He has a beard, a splitting maul, and a house in Michigan. Is that enough to convince America that he’s a man of the people?

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Militants rammed a vehicle filled with explosives into an army checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, killing 11 security personnel and a child, the military said ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stephanie Lowry, survivor of child marriage, speaks during a press conference at the Ohio Statehouse. (Photo by Morgan Trau, WEWS.

The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of a U.S. government decision to reunite her with her Afghan family.

Senate Bill 504, which would ban marriages for people under 18 in Oklahoma, passed out of a Senate committee unanimously on Wednesday. An Oklahoma Senate committee unanimously passed a bill that would ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A new bipartisan bill in the Ohio Senate would prohibit marriage for anyone under the age of 18, with no exceptions. The last time the age limit was set was 2019, and that law ...

For more than 50 years, Father Luigi Paggi has lived and worked among some of Bangladesh’s most marginalized people, building schools, teaching girls, and waging a quiet war against a practice that ...

Since the Trump administration slashed foreign aid to Afghanistan a year ago, child malnutrition has risen to levels not seen in 25 years. Two recent deadly earthquakes have killed thousands. Some 2.8 ...