The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity ...

The girl had seen police approach her father in ... seeking safety away from the radical Islamist group. Afghan nationals who had worked with the United States or NATO forces were particularly ...

The first match by the Afghan women’s cricket team is placing the Taliban under additional diplomatic pressure.

Girls attend school on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File) The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor says he has ...

Voicing concerns over the situation of girls in Afghanistan, Nobel Peace Prize laureate said the country's policies do not reflect the teachings of Islam. Malala Yousafzai said the Afghan women and ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas ...

Still, captain Nahida Sapan said it should give hope to women in Afghanistan where sport has been disbanded and girls are banned from secondary education. "It means a lot for Afghan women, because ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

In 2016, moments after speaking on a TV interview about the dangers of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Zia Danesh’s car was ...

Snowboarders Musawer Khanzai and Nasima Zirak used to drag themselves up the thick snowy slopes of Afghanistan's Hindu Kush ...

"I am the only one in my family who has a job. I need this work," he said. One of the projects that now has an uncertain ...