Zahra Haqparast, a dentist and women’s rights activist who was imprisoned by the Taliban in 2022 and now speaks from exile in ...

Burrowing into both Afghan family life and the country’s convoluted politics, Åsne Seierstad's "The Afghans" follows three people over several decades, culminating in the dramatic first year of the ...

Get ready to cope” was the message from an aid worker to women returning to Taliban rule in Afghanistan after their expulsion ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby ...

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 wail of a woman in a floral dress reverberates through the malnutrition ward and down the stuffy hallways of a hospital ...

A Kent man spent more than a week in one of the world’s least democratic countries - but did he find it as oppressive as ...

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

Afghan woman escapes Kabul, leaves family behind Sarina spoke to ABC News from a military base in Holland about her journey out of Kabul in late August, after the Taliban seized Afghanistan.

I followed female journalists, judges, activists and even my cousin, a lecturer at Kabul university, as they faced death threats, family excommunication and more to force progress onto Afghan culture.

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

The Taliban, which returned to power in 2021, has cracked down on the way women dress and behave in public, notably through ...