Muslims share a communal Iftar meal breaking their fast, at sundown on the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Credit: AP ...

Join Asia Society on Wednesday, October 6 for a town hall on the critical issues coming out of the U.S.'s withdrawal from Afghanistan, including what life under Taliban rule may look like for future ...

Under Taliban rule, Afghanistan is experiencing severe human rights abuses, notably against women and ethnic minorities, amid socio-political and humanitarian crises. In this piece, the authors ...

When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021, women and girls were left uncertain of their basic rights and futures. The Taliban government initially promised to allow them to exercise their ...

Afghanistan may be independent, but is it free? It has a state, but does it have a nation? A nation-state is not just a territorial entity. It is also an idea, a habit, a lived experience. What is the ...

More than 50 civil society organizations and individuals, including IFEX, have signed a statement calling on international institutions to take immediate action to restrict and secure biometric and ...

President Biden bowed to his party’s far-left on Wednesday by easing economic restrictions on the Taliban and allowing U.S. tax dollars to fund “civil society” programs in Afghanistan. The Treasury ...

This op-ed is part of an occasional series published by The Dallas Morning News Opinion section on human rights and human freedom. Find the full series here. The dimensions of the calamity in ...

In Afghanistan, where the future has looked so bleak for so long, many are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. That beaming light is the prospect of a new government for all Afghan ...

A new generation of career-minded women in Afghanistan fear that all they have fought for will be swept away if the Taliban negotiate a return. Clockwise from top left: Raihana Azad, politician; ...

The dramatic scenes unfolding in Kabul as Taliban forces overrun the last remaining government-held positions in Afghanistan’s capital have come as a shock to many American observers both on the ...

Afghanistan has suffered immeasurable loss for years on battlefields and in bombings, but a recent campaign of assassinations has shocked the country. Kabul’s middle class neighborhoods are stalked ...