Topic: Afghanistan

Years of wartime has military divorces edging higher as couples cope with separation, stressThe divorce rate in the armed forces continues to edge higher, despite efforts by the military to help struggling couples.There were an estimated 27,312 divorces among roughly 765,000 married ...

Adultery

The culpability of both men and women is more explicitly expressed in the New Testament and the Talmud than in the Old Testament or the Qur?an. ; properly, any extramarital sexual intercourse), including death by stoning-a punishment still applied in the early ...

Battered Afghan wives opt for divorce instead of suicide

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - After regular beatings, torture and attempted murder by her husband, 35-year-old Zahra tried to burn herself to death to escape her marriage. divorce.Zahra is among a growing number of women in Afghanistan's western Herat province who, with the ...