ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A new penal code issued by decree in Afghanistan sets harsher punishments for the mistreatment of animals than for domestic violence against women and solidifies into law ...

The Afghanistan Journalists Center says Kabul-based reporter Mahdi Ansari has been released from Bagram prison after spending one and a half years in custody.

Suspected Taliban fighters are often subjected to illegal torture in some Afghan-run detention centers, a United Nations report found. Prisoners are hung by their hands, electrocuted, and in some ...

At least 29 people have been killed in a raid on an Afghan prison claimed by the Islamic State group, officials said Monday, as the country waited to see if a government ceasefire with the Taliban ...

Afghan journalist and activist Khadija Amin, now living in Spain after fleeing Taliban rule, denounces the burqa as a tool of ...