The UN experts urged the global community to respond more forcefully to the worsening human rights situation in Afghanistan.

Pakistan's Operation Ghazab lil Haq Targets Bagram Airbase Islamabad: Reports indicate that Pakistan has targeted the well-known Bagram airbase in Afghanistan as part of its military operation against ...

The Taliban has restricted women's movements and barred girls from education beyond primary school since coming to power in 2021, via a series of morality laws limiting expression and employment. A ...

Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of the director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network’s Death Penalty Abolition Program. It is Emmjolee Mendoza Waters. The correct ...

Florida has executed its second inmate of the year even as a Supreme Court justice questioned the state's “deeply troubling" record on lethal injections and how it "shrouds its executions in secrecy." ...

WASHINGTON − Justice Sonia Sotomayor called Florida’s record on lethal injections “deeply troubling,” even as she joined the Supreme Court’s Feb. 24 decision clearing the way for the state’s latest ...

Melvin Trotter was executed last night, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a last-minute stay of execution. The executive director of Floridians for alternatives to the death penalty, ...

A shooting in Washington, D.C., threw their immigration status into jeopardy — and brought attention to a long-hidden dimension of America’s war.

The world has shifted focus away from Afghanistan, much as it did in the lead-up to September 2001, giving dangerous networks room to rebuild. The Taliban regime is expanding its provision of national ...

The state of Oklahoma executed a good man Thursday, Feb. 12. Kendrick Simpson fits the profile of most of the men executed or soon to be executed in Oklahoma: Black, abject poverty in his childhood, ...

KABUL, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban government said on Tuesday it had released three Pakistani soldiers captured during border clashes in October, in a move mediated by Saudi Arabia amid ...

Warning: This article contains discussion of domestic violence which some readers may find distressing. Last month, the Taliban’s emir endorsed a new Criminal Procedural Regulations for Courts and ...