International peace and security requires due consideration of the world’s women. This is no radical social theory.

International peace and security requires due consideration of the world’s women. This is no radical social theory.

Turning a blind eye to transnational terrorism that is presumed far away is dangerous, and prevention is far more impactful than relying on responses after the fact.

The journalist Mélissa Cornet and the photographer Kiana Hayeri met more than 100 Afghan girls and women in seven provinces, and found resistance and defiance but also despair

Khalil Haqqani was the acting minister for refugees and a key member of the notorious Haqqani network.

Washington — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday defended President Biden's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan while appearing before the Republican-led House Foreign Affairs Committee, which has long sought to question him over the deadly evacuation.  "I firmly believe the president's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan was the right one," he told lawmakers.   Blinken declined to take the blame for decisions that were made leading up to the exit, explaining that actions taken by the first Trump administration left the Biden administration in a weak position and intelligence assessments expected Kabul to remain the hands of the Afghan government. 

Draconian new laws allow mass incarceration of women and children forced to beg because of work ban