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 ...

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 ...

Quivering with quiet rage, Shirin holds a photo of his teenage brother-in-law, who now lives as the plaything of policemen, just one victim of a hidden epidemic of kidnappings of young boys for ...

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 ...

In Afghanistan, there exists a custom wherein some families without sons will transform a young daughter into a boy by altering her appearance and giving her a male name. Their new “son” is a bacha ...

The Taliban has released a video of an interrogation of a girl who passed as a boy. It's an age-old practice in this patriarchal society but now... In this four-minute clip, a disembodied voice asks a ...