The Taliban issued a message on International Women’s Day, saying Afghan women live in security with their rights protected, even as the U.N. condemned ongoing employment and education bans. The ...

Afghan women are reportedly defying the Taliban through the forbidden act of signing after a ‘bizarre and brutal’ new ban on their voices in public. The lyrics of a popular song ringing out on social ...

A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 23, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi August 15, 2024, ...

Three years ago, Roya was well on her way to her lifelong dream of a career in medicine. She excelled in her high school classes and took extra tutoring sessions to prepare for the Kankor or ...

U.S. citizens and permanent residents traveling within their valid travel periods do not need a visa to reenter the U.S.

Afghan lawyer Benafsha Yaqoobi has been chosen as one of the winners of the U.S. State Department's 2024 International Women of Courage Award. Yaqoobi, who is visually impaired, has advocated for ...

Afghan women were blocked from attending the high-level meetings between the Taliban and United Nations leaders and special envoys dealing with Afghanistan in Qatar on Sunday. The Taliban had earlier ...

Two days of UN-organized talks on international relations with Taliban-led Afghanistan were getting under way in the Qatari capital, Doha, on June 30, with the Taliban present for the first time -- ...

When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021, women and girls were left uncertain of their basic rights and futures. The Taliban government initially promised to allow them to exercise their ...

After almost 20 years of conflict, the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan officially ended with a Taliban victory in August 2021. For nearly all of that time, Lt. General Khoshal Sadat and Lt. General Sami ...

In almost a year and a half since the Taliban took over, Afghanistan has started on a downward spiral and a “process of self-destruction”, in the words of Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the ...

In 2008, when I was appointed mayor of the Daykundi province in Afghanistan, the national and international media rushed to interview me. I was not only the first female mayor in the history of the ...