KABUL -- Afghan journalist Saima thought she was one of the lucky ones when the Taliban swept back to power. She could no longer do the reporting she once did, and was restricted to reading the ...

Your donation makes it possible for us to keep doing this important work, keeping you informed every step of the way to the November election Afghan women are reportedly defying the Taliban ...

In recent weeks, statements coming from the Foreign Office, PM Shehbaz Sharif and even Chief of Army Staff Gen Asim Munir have become increasingly forceful in their tenor, calling on Afghan ...

An explosion in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, has killed at least six people, the police and Ministry of Interior Affairs say. “This afternoon, a person wearing explosives on his body ...

KABUL (Reuters) -An explosion in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Monday killed six people, the country's interior ministry and police said. "Details will be shared later," spokesman Abdul Mateen ...

However, Afghan women have been defying the Taliban and competed at the 2024 Olympics and 2024 Paralympic, while flying the flag of the Refugee Olympic and Paralympic Teams. Among them is Zakia ...

PARIS, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Manizha Talash, the Afghan breakdancer from the refugee team who was disqualified at the Paris Olympics for displaying the words "Free Afghan Women" on her cape in her ...

A look at Afghan history shows the extreme regressiveness of these laws. Women in Afghanistan were granted the right to vote in 1919, a year before women in the U.S. The early 1920s saw a rush to ...

Friday marked the third anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of the first U.S. campaign in what has been dubbed the Global War on Terror ...

Invisible, and now silent. Three years after the Taliban's return to power, Afghan women continue to see their few remaining rights dwindle away. A Taliban ministry promulgated a new set of laws ...

The Taliban has been in power for three years since the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan in 2021, and the country's only pro-Western opposition force, the National Resistance ...