On a grey autumnal morning, a lifeline for premature babies is in the making in Lancashire, thanks to a quiet group of Afghan ...

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 ...

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

Japan's parliament will convene a special session from next Monday following the general election, the top government spokesman said, with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba looking set to be ...

Nathan Hill explains why it's worth celebrating when some make it to freedom… If you’ve been keeping fish for less than ten years it’s unlikely that you’ve ever seen a true Blue-eyed panaque in the ...

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, ...

Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The long, ghastly “stare” of their searing eye-like cores shines out into the supreme cosmic ...

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 ...