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The parents of photojournalist Danish Siddiqui have filed additional evidence with the International Criminal Court with respect to their complaint asking for an investigation into Siddiqui’s death. According to a press release issued by the Danish Siddiqui Foundation, the evidence includes affidavits, a medical opinion on the autopsy, and a…

Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., who is a co-sponsor of the bill in the House, said she feels cautiously optimistic that the legislation will pass by the end of the year. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said there aren’t yet sufficient sponsors in the Senate to get the legislation passed — but…

Women had struggled long and hard for the right to divorce, but since the Taliban’s takeover, the situation worsened.

Afghanistan's Hazara community, a Shiite minority, is regularly targeted by the Afghan branch of the Islamic State (IS) group, which considers Hazaras as heretics. Dozens of people, mostly girls, were killed in an attack on an education centre in a Shiite neighbourhood of Kabul on September 30. Although the attack…

Hahmed Sabouri was taken to a detention centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, where the Taliban tortured him for three days before shooting him in the back of the head

Death of Hamed Sabouri is latest in wave of attacks, with rights groups warning thousands are in hiding or trying to flee country

A U.K.-based nonprofit says the Taliban captured, bound, and shot 27 men to death in Afghanistan's Panjshir province last month as part of their operations against resistance forces in the area

The German government is launching a new program to help to bring about 1,000 people who are at risk of persecution in Afghanistan to Germany each month

Germany has started a new programme to admit Afghans deemed most at risk following last year's Taliban takeover in Kabul, the interior and foreign ministries said on Monday.

Taliban sources tell Al Jazeera that US officials assured them during a meeting in Doha.

The 24-year-old was sentenced to death by stoning last week after the Taliban caught her out and about with a man who was not her family member in Afghanistan