NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Sahar Fetrat a researcher at Human Rights Watch, about the lives of women in Afghanistan now, as the Taliban continue to limit their presence in public life.

A federal jury on Tuesday awarded a total of $42 million to three Iraqi men who endured continuous torture at Baghdad’s Abu ...

More than 15 years after victims of torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison lodged a lawsuit against a US contractor, a jury ...

The jury granted $3 million in compensatory damages and $11 million in punitive damages to each of the plaintiffs.

The jury also decided to hold a Virginia-based military contractor responsible for contributing to the torture and ...

After jihadists jailed him in 2014, Iraqi religious scholar Muhammad al-Attar said he would sometimes pull his prison blanket ...

At 21 years old, Noah Soulay is a grown man. He is tall, slim and speaks English with an American accent. He says he lived in ...

The Iraqi National Security Service in late December announced that ten people in Kirkuk were sentenced to five years in prison each for glorifying the fallen regime. Hussein and his regime ...

Tara Desousa, now 43, has applied to Federal Court to overturn a decision by B.C.‘s Fraser Valley Institution to deny her “escorted temporary absences” from the federal women’s prison.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison two decades ago is again on trial in a federal courtroom after a long ...

2024 — The International Rescue Committee (IRC), in partnership with the National Department for Iraqi Women (NDIW), facilitated two workshops aimed at increasing the capacity and knowledge of ...