Since the start of the school year in March, Afghan boys have been required to wear new uniforms of turbans and long tunics, ...

Movement in Afghanistan continues to fight for women's rights, justice, and freedom, defying Taliban oppression through ...

Cuts to U.S. aid for Afghanistan threaten essential IRC programs that deliver food, health care, education and critical ...

Many had lived in Pakistan for decades after fleeing successive wars and crises but did not wait to be arrested by Pakistani ...

Pushed out of Pakistan where she was born, Nazmine Khan's first experience of her country, Afghanistan, was in a sweltering ...

Despite this, Afghan women display remarkable resilience ... and white image showing girl and a woman sitting with each other ...

This is not Taliban in Afghanistan, but India. A group of men brutally beat a woman named Shabina Banu with sticks & pipes outside a Mosque in Karnataka's Davanagere, after her husband complained ...

MELBOURNE, April 16 (Reuters) - A funding pledge from the International Cricket Council (ICC) has given Afghanistan's exiled women cricketers hope of recognition and the chance to play on the ...

ISLAMABAD: An Afghan woman journalist, Farishta Sadeed, was picked up by authorities from her residence in Sector B-17 on Monday night and taken to a detention facility for deportation ...

(AP Foto/Siddiqullah Alizai) A woman carries a plastic bag on her shoulder at a central market in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Foto/Siddiqullah Alizai) An empty yard is seen at the ...

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The 25 Afghan women cricketers initially contracted by the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) in 2020 could be the first beneficiaries of the ICC's new support initiative, announced after their board ...