Life After Sexual Slavery In Afghanistan

Adorned in makeup, fake breasts and bells, Jawed whirls around middle-aged men at Kabul’s underground bacha bazi, or “boy play” parties, where the former child sex slave finds freedom of sorts as a dancing boy. Jawed was kidnapped by a former jihadi commander in Shomali, north of Kabul, when he was barely 14, a victim … Read more

Afghan Policemen Killed In US ‘friendly Fire’ Air Strike

A US air strike killed at least two Afghan policemen and wounded four others in Helmand, officials said Saturday, in apparently the first “friendly fire” incident since American Marines returned to the southern province in April. Afghan border police were on a patrol in the volatile district of Nad Ali when they came under fire … Read more