Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Afghanistan, stated that the recruitment of children is part of the broader child rights crisis in the country.

The U.N. children's fund says armed men in eastern Congo raped hundreds of children and recruited child soldiers at unprecedented levels as the conflict in the mineral- rich region intensified in rece ...

But for the hundreds of children who lost parents in Afghanistan, the conflict that began 26 days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will never really end. They continue to pay the cost of war ...

"A violent jihadist and narcotics trafficker, Khan Mohammed sought to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan using rockets," Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Matthew Friedrich ...