Like all Afghan women, Negin must cover herself from head to toe and wear ... “Or I wish I had not been born as a girl here. It’s a crime to be a girl.” Masuma used to enjoy cycling and ...

This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Twenty-five years ago an Afghan girl with green eyes haunted the cover of National Geographic. She became the iconic ...

Akakhil had previously hosted entertainment programmes for young people and families on a variety of Afghan channels such as Ariana TV, where women presenters have since been forced to cover their ...

The BBC is spending the day with women across Afghanistan to understand what their lives look like under the Taliban ...

Despite being forced to flee to Australia to escape Taliban, the Afghanistan women’s cricketers continue to fight to ...

A call from Helmand on February 29, 2020, underscored the shock and uncertainty felt in Afghanistan over the deal.

Their children — four boys and a girl — all attend St. Cloud schools ... Shabnam taught herself art. Her sketches cover her bedroom walls. Now, she attends St. Cloud’s Tech High School ...

But the 20-year-old Afghan woman could not ... from everyone but her father, but her cover was blown by her own talent. At 13, she was named the best girl soccer player in her age group, and ...

She didn’t recognise me because we have been separated since August 2021 after I was evacuated to the UK from Afghanistan. My ...

With her special immigrant visa approved, she left late at night under the cover of ... her with an Afghan family who gave her shelter for a few nights. "It's so hard for a girl that don't have ...