The White House budget office has ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans. The freeze could impact trillions in government spending and halt public programs affecting millions of Americans.

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

In India the girls will typically be attached to boys four or five years older; in Yemen, Afghanistan ... "Beautiful new clothes," Shobha told me, with a mirthless smile. "I didn't know the ...

An Afghan national, Maisa Hussain, 24, and four Pakistanis, Gulfam Azam, 29, Yasir Mahmood, 29, Bilawal Arif, 30, and Faisal Khuoot, 30, appeared in the ...

Gauteng police, in collaboration with private security companies, have rescued a nine-year-old boy who was kidnapped for four days in Laudium, Pretoria. Five suspects, aged between 24 and 37, were ...

Afghanistan may no longer be a priority for the United States but actions taken by President Donald Trump in the first few days in White House suggested that the Taliban government would be under ...

Afghanistan has had a tumultuous recent past. In the last three decades, the country has been occupied by Soviet troops and US-led international forces, and in the years in between has been ruled by ...

If issued, the warrants would be the first international acknowledgment of the Taliban’s persecution of Afghan women. "These applications recognise that Afghan women and girls as well as the ...

A retired senior police chief has told an inquiry the Royal Military Police's initial investigation into alleged war crimes by UK Special Forces in Afghanistan was "slow to commence, sluggish in ...

UNHCR-led global resettlement process will also be hit by Trump’s suspension of refugee programme The US Mission in Pakistan had shared a list of more than 25,000 Afghan individuals with the ...