The United Nations has suspended its operations at the Islam Qala border crossing after Afghan women staff were barred from ...

Afghan players fled the country in 2021 after the Taliban banned women's sports. Their return to international competition ...

Manoozh Noori said she "wanted to die" when the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021. Noori had defied family ...

Some four years after players from the Afghanistan women’s national team fled their homeland amid the Taliban’s takeover, a ...

Governments moving to restore ties with the Taliban risk legitimising oppression and deepening Afghanistan’s crisis, an ...

A tournament that included a team of refugee women's soccer players from Afghanistan has been moved to Morocco and shifted to ...

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The Taliban’s enforcement of Sharia rule in Afghanistan has been the main roadblock to their international recognition. Their restrictions on women and girls and freedom of expression have drawn ...

The Afghan refugee team – now known as Afghan Women United – got their first win at the FIFA Unites: Women’s Series. The tournament concluded in Morocco with Chad finishing as champions, meaning that ...

ZURICH (AP) — The Afghanistan national women’s soccer team of refugee players has its first official games next month at a four-team tournament in Dubai, FIFA said Wednesday. The FIFA-supported team — ...

Afghan-American Sayeda Qader leads The Kalaam Project, a humanitarian relief team providing emergency aid to local Afghans – ...

Survivors of a powerful earthquake in northern Afghanistan that killed more than 20 people and injured hundreds were digging ...