A road mine destroyed a bus carrying a wedding party in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing the bride, groom and eight other civilians, an official said. Provincial police Chief Matiullah Khan ...

A woman who was once a child bride in Afghanistan escaped, along with her infant son, and found her way years later to ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Two young Afghan girls who tried to escape their forced arranged marriages were caught at a police checkpoint ...

An Afghan child bride on Saturday spoke of how she was tortured by her mother-in-law who locked her in a toilet for six months, beat her, pulled out her fingernails and burned her with cigarettes.

The woman standing on stage glistens in a crystal-studded bikini. Her glowing, tanned skin shows off each of her well-defined muscle lines, the result of hours of weight training in the gym. Roya ...

Sahar Gul, 15, is recovering in hospital in Kabul, her face bruised and swollen, her skin still bearing the marks of her ordeal, and barely able to speak. Her brother ...

"I once lived in a harem in Afghanistan" is the gripping opening sentence of An American Bride in Kabul, in which feminist academic and native New Yorker Phyllis Chesler recounts her experience of 50 ...

Afghanistan cricketer Rashid Khan got married in Kabul on Thursday and while congratulatory messages poured in from his colleagues, many are bemused at the complete lack of women in the photos, ...