Since July 16, the Taliban have arrested dozens of women and girls in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, for allegedly violating ...

Former Scotland striker Pauline Hamill has been appointed to coach a newly-formed Afghan women's refugee team by Fifa.

The country’s Taliban government banned girls from secondary school and university three years ago — the only country in the ...

The International Cricket Council has announced an expanded initiative to support Afghanistan's displaced female cricketers, ...

The United Nations on Monday expressed concern about the Taliban’s arrest of Afghan women and girls for their alleged failure ...

From underground hair salons to selling makeup and jewelry online, a report by The Washington Post details the daily struggles that women in Afghanistan face. Afghan women fight the Taliban with small ...

The brutal killing of an Afghan mother and her children in Iran has shocked the nation, igniting calls for justice and protection.

Gilal Eldien Ali is accused of sexually assaulting an Afghan woman who once worked for Canada in Afghanistan. The trial of a ...

Since the return of the Taliban in 2021, Afghan women correspondents have chronicled the realities faced by women who, after some 20 years of increased freedom and opportunity, have been relegated ...

Jul 28, 2025 // Under the Taliban, the hard–won, imperfect foundations of governance built over two decades in Afghanistan have been dismantled. To rebuild governance requires a meaningful conflict ...

Zarghuna Safai*, a 20-year-old resident of Kabul, was a second-semester student at a local medical institute when the Taliban barred women and girls from studying in medical training centres across ...

The UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) recently estimated that up to three million people could return to Afghanistan ...