KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In Kabul's alleys and courtyards, boys in white caps and tunics recite verses from the Quran in a growing network of madrassas, the religious schools increasingly filling the ...

Adorned in makeup, fake breasts and bells, Jawed whirls around middle-aged men at Kabul’s underground bacha bazi, or “boy play” parties, where the former child sex slave finds freedom of sorts as a ...

In this four-minute clip, a disembodied voice asks a child in a dimly lit room: "Are you a man or a woman now?" The child looks terrified – and like she's trying to be brave. She says she's 13 years ...

KABUL: Fawad Mohammadi has spent half his life peddling maps and dictionaries to foreigners on a street of trinket shops in Kabul. Now the 14-year-old Afghan boy with bright green eyes is getting ...

Mohammad Rasool began noticing changes in his children’s school curriculum almost immediately after the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021. At first, the changes were small, almost ...

A 13-year-old from Afghanistan sneaked inside the landing gear compartment of an aircraft which reached Delhi from Kabul. The Afghan boy has now been deported. He has been sent back by the same flight ...

A casting director will audition boys in Fairfax County on Saturday for a motion picture called "The Kite Runner." The film, produced by DreamWorks SKG ("War of the Worlds," "Madagascar," "Shrek") and ...

How Corruption Makes Everything Harder The New York Times' Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti and Dexter Filkins write, "Afghanistan emerges as a looking-glass land where bribery, extortion and embezzlement ...

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Fawad Mohammadi has spent half his life peddling maps and dictionaries to foreigners on a street of trinket shops in Kabul. Now the 14-year-old Afghan boy with bright green eyes is getting ready for a ...