Afghanistan's female footballers have been fighting in exile to get back to playing internationally for years. Earlier this ...

Aided by her mother, Mahtab Amiri, who coordinated her escape, she left the country with Erfaan and was driven to Iran. From ...

This dispatch was co-authored by Divyabharthi Baradhan (JURIST Staff, Malaysia) and Sarisha Harikrishna (Queen's University Belfast School of Law, United Kingdom). In a landmark ruling, the ...

Afghan officials accuse Pakistan of refusing dialogue despite escalating tensions. They insist Islamabad has no joint security plan to address militancy but only a strategy of coercion.

In the latest of our Letters from Afghan Women, a young woman opens up about keeping hope alive despite threats to her life ...

Khalida Popal told Reuters she was urging female footballers to get rid of their national team uniform to stay safe from the Taliban.

For more than two decades, the Afghan Women's Centre of Montreal has been helping people in need through food, including when ...

Today, August 15, marks four years since the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan. It is a somber anniversary for me and for the millions of fellow Afghans whose daily reality is marked by hunger, ...

Among Afghans, there is a saying: “A woman can only be defeated by a woman.” In today’s Afghanistan, this expression takes on a painfully literal meaning. With women and girls barred from schools, ...

Sen. Tom Cotton calls West Virginia National Guard attack preventable, linking assault on Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe to Afghan evacuee vetting.

Taliban restrictions force women deeper into isolation Women aid workers face reduced or no pay without work With no aid, children sold and forced into work or marriage KABUL/NEW DELHI, Jan 26 ...