According to the World Health Organization, 638 Afghan women die per 100,000 live births. We can only expect these statistics to get worse. Belches came to the university to avoid being at home.

Our eyes don't deceive us: The men are fleeing Afghanistan. Where are all the women? Maybe these men are doing the only thing they can to eventually protect their families by escaping.

The New Afghanistan, Through the Eyes of Three Women How lives have changed under the Taliban’s increasingly restrictive rule. 2023-06-05T06:00:10-04:00.

Afghan woman's trek to escape Kabul with her daughter -- and her plea to help family stuck behind. ... "My eyes begin, like, filled with tears," she said, when she's asked about their journey.

Sadaf Rahimi, 17, will become Afghanistan's first female Olympic boxer when she fights in London. A wild card from the Olympic committee has propelled the student towards the London games ...

After the Taliban took power, some women tried to push back. A week after the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif fell, Aliya, a 27-year-old university lecturer, felt her past life slipping away.

"Blue-eyed devils" (Westerners) had corrupted the country, he appeared to suggest. Rather than take his word for it, I wanted to hear from women themselves. Many are in hiding, all fear for their ...

Nejat estimates around 60,000 women in Afghanistan regularly take illegal drugs, including hashish and marijuana. Full story Left: An Afghan drug addict smokes heroin in the city of Ghazni west of ...

The tragedy unfolding in Afghanistan this week has horrified the world. Footage of Afghans clinging to a U.S. plane, fleeing ahead of Taliban fighters, seemed darkly metaphorical of the stark ...

Under Taliban rule in the 1990s women were not allowed to attend school or work. Since the hard-line group were overthrown in 2001, fragile progress has been made in bringing more Afghan women ...