A dowry is given so that a girl can hold her head high among others and not be looked down upon. Without it, in the groom’s family — especially from the mother-in-law or sisters-in-law — there’s a lot ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — By plane, motorbike, camper van and even on bicycles, tourists are beginning to discover Afghanistan, ...

Nothing is as it seems' perfectly captures the Afghanistan experience," Turkish filmmaker Gözde Kural says about her second ...

The Taliban have severely restricted the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan since returning to power in August 2021.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan's Taliban movement Amir Khan Muttaqi prior ...

President Donald Trump made remarks at a White House July 4th event before signing the "Big, Beautiful Bill" into law.

Since the return of the Taliban in 2021, Afghan women correspondents have documented the struggles and triumphs of their lives under the oppressive regime which strips them of even the most basic ...

Malala Yousafzai has never stopped fighting for the rights of women, even after it almost cost the Nobel-Prize-winning ...

Beneath the official narratives of “stability” and “return,” lies a brutal truth: Afghanistan remains a deeply unsafe country ...