There are moments in everyone's life when it feels as though everything has come to an end—overwhelmed by pressure, stress, ...

When the Taliban fell from power in Afghanistan in 2001, women were once again allowed to go to school after being banned since 1996. I, along with World Bank education expert Raja Bentaouet Kattan ...

Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2023. The Taliban Virtue and Vice Ministry had on May 7, 2022, said women in public ...

In 2025, Afghan women and girls faced widespread exclusion from education and work, worsening poverty, limiting economic ...

In the latest of our Letters from Afghan Women, a young woman opens up about keeping hope alive despite threats to her life ...

'Bread and Roses', which largely features footage taken in Afghanistan after the Taliban retook control of the country in 2021, is now streaming on Apple TV+ Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage; Apple TV+ When ...

Ms. Rezayee, one of Afghanistan’s first two female Olympians, is the founder and executive director of Women Leaders of Tomorrow, a nonprofit to empower Afghan women and girls through education and ...

Defaced and vandalized posters of women across Kabul highlight concerns by Afghan women that the new Taliban regime will mimic the old one.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — They wandered through the museum, listening attentively as their guide explained the antiquities in display cabinets. It could have been any tour group, anywhere in the world ...

Amidst the ancient artefacts of Afghanistan's National Museum, a seemingly ordinary tour group stood out for one extraordinary reason: every member, including their guide, was a woman. This all-female ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Afghan women cricketers will finally get high-level support in a bid to rejoin international competition after the sport’s world governing body created a taskforce to ...