In Afghanistan, strict Taliban regulations and deeply-rooted patriarchal traditions make it nearly impossible for women to ...

With many care centers shuttered and supplies dwindling, many pregnant women in rural Afghanistan fear they or their babies ...

No school. No work. No speaking outside. No healthcare without an increasingly scarce female provider. No dissent. No justice. This is the horrific reality for women and girls in Afghanistan since the ...

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake has struck Afghanistan's mountainous eastern region, with authorities saying hundreds of people have been killed. The quake hit at 23:47 local time on Sunday (19:17 GMT) and ...

The Malala Fund is working to provide alternative channels to educate girls in the absence of conventional schooling.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6 hit eastern Afghanistan, destroying multiple villages and killing more than 800 people, officials say.

Afghan women who fled Taliban rule describe trauma, loss, and fear as they struggle for recognition abroad. As Afghanistan ...

The influencers gain attention by gushing over visits to the Central Asian nation, although one critic notes that their trips legitimize its "gender apartheid." ...

Four years ago today, the U.S. military completed its chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Since then, the Taliban has imposed Islamic law and severely restricted the rights of girls and women. John ...

Elaha Safdari was 17 and had just earned her maiden call-up as a goalkeeper for Afghanistan's women's football team when she was forced to flee Kabul during the Taliban takeover in 2021.

Over 800 deaths and 2500 injuries were reported in Afghanistan's Kunar and Nangarhar provinces after a deadly 6.3 magnitude ...

It has some of the world's most severe restrictions on women but that isn't stopping all-female tourist groups from visiting to see Afghanistan for themselves. Despite its "appalling human rights ...