Jennifer Lawrence and Malala Yousafzai join Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani to reveal the struggles of women living under Taliban ...

A 17-year-old girl who is not allowed to speak in public in her own country has won a prestigious international award for ...

A simple story of complex race dynamics Washington DC-based pediatrician turned international bestselling novelist Nadia ...

Matiul Haq Khalis, director general of Afghanistan's National Environmental Protection Agency ... though it has not ...

Gula was for years the face of Afghanistan's suffering, after National Geographic published the image of the young refugee, her defiant, pained eyes staring out from an unsmiling face, framed by a ...

By then, Pakistan was among the lowest-ranked South Asian countries, performing better only than Afghanistan. In 2023, Pakistan continued facing severe rule-of-law issues, ranking 130th out of 142 ...

Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women. It’s the latest restriction on women following morality laws that ban them from raising their voices, ...

The move comes after a series of so-called “virtue” or “morality” laws were implemented in Afghanistan in August, laid out in a 114-page document that covered vast aspects of everyday ...

Laws included the ban on women reading or singing in public. In 2022, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan said that Taliban restrictions on the freedoms of women and girls ...

Korashi was arrested in May in Elk Grove, California. She had been living among fellow Afghan refugees. It is unclear when she first arrived in the United States. She fled Afghanistan and started ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE -Taliban fighters celebrate the third anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan ...