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 ...

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 inequality based on gender ...

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 ...

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.

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

The United States handed over its controversial Bagram prison to Afghanistan on Monday, as part of a deal to transfer all prisons to Afghan control by the end of 2014, Reuters reported. The transfer ...

Afghan authorities were searching Tuesday for about 270 inmates -- most of them Islamic State fighters -- who remained on the loose after escaping during a deadly prison raid. At least 29 people were ...

ATHENS, Greece — 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 inequality ...