VICE, a taboo-breaking news magazine series, premieres on HBO in June.

The series, co-created and hosted by Shane Smith, features groundbreaking news stories from around the world.

Each edition of VICE, composed of 10 episodes, promises to smash barriers of decorum in covering topics such as out-of-control political assassinations in the Philippines, tensions on the dangerous India-Pakistan border, the sumo/mixed martial arts craze that has swept Senegal, and the precarious nuclear stare-down in Kashmir.

As American troops prepare to leave Afghanistan, the Taliban stoops to an all-time low by recruiting confused, innocent children — some as young as six — to be suicide bombers. In Mauritania, young girls are force-fed thousands of calories worth of fatty food daily in order to achieve the country’s “ideal” weight for women. The shortage of available women is denying a generation of Chinese men love and one of life’s more intimate pleasures. These are the kinds of stories that are usually overlooked by the mainstream media that will be investigated on VICE.