Her memoir Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou inspired the 2003 film Escape From Taliban. Nearly two decades after fleeing Afghanistan, ...

Businesses in Afghanistan's western city of Herat are witnessing a sharp decline in customers as women increasingly avoid ...

The Taliban regime has transformed courts and state institutions into tools for enforcing decrees that intensify the ...

A newly announced ban on smartphones for government workers, police and military personnel is spilling over into healthcare ...

While political tensions and human right violations in Afghanistan have been a flashpoint since 2021 but information about ground realities has been scarce as it is pretty isolated in its rule ...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers deny shooting at protesters and claim no women or girls have been arrested because they're all following strict dress code rules.

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The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Thursday released its first quarterly human rights report of 2025, stating that the Taliban continues to implement decrees aimed at erasing women ...

“My team-mates are my sisters. Our dream is to play together again, standing side by side.” In June 2021, Fatima Foladi was a rising football star in Afghanistan when she scored against Tajikistan in ...

The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021 for the second time. Since then, the former insurgents have consolidated their grip on power, excluded women and girls from public life, stamped out ...

The Trump administration says Afghanistan's conditions have improved in recent years to the point where sending Afghan nationals back does not pose a threat to their safety. That's how members of the ...

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