The Taliban responded with contradictory stances in the effort to rescue women and girls who were wounded and left homeless.

Mark Johnson spoke with Mitra Mahtab, a UVM student, who plans to use her education to help other Afghan women who have faced ...

For millions of Afghan women and girls, the digital sphere is the last connection to the outside world, writes Zahra Nader.

Three days after being excluded from a press conference fronted by Taliban’s foreign minister in India, women journalists took their seats in a powerful show of force to question him about the social ...

The first Afghan women’s soccer team has been announced since the Taliban returned to power four years ago, but the players are still fighting for recognition.

Women have been barred from most public spaces. Afghan citizens are being deported by nearby countries. And marginalized ...

Taliban restrictions, aid cuts, and the August 31 earthquake have left Afghan women without lifesaving care, exposing a ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — One after the other, the opportunities vanished. Like so many other Afghan women, Sodaba could do little but watch as her country’s new Taliban government imposed a ...

Afghanistan today faces a maternal health crisis that is as much political as it is medical. When girls are banned from studying beyond grade 6, nursing and midwifery schools are shuttered, and female ...

On September 15, 2025, the Taliban de facto authorities announced an internet ban across large areas of northern Afghanistan.

It was on short notice and a short list of journalists was decided,’ said Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.

The Taliban reportedly used tear gas and stun guns on protesters. Afghan women say they were teargassed and beaten at a protest in Kabul on Saturday, as Taliban rule continues to be met with reported ...