By Maryam Mursal When Afghanistan's third largest city, Herat, fell to the Taliban on August 12, Sahar, 20, was busy...

By Arezo Rahimi The Taliban had ruled Kabul for four days when Manizha Talash, 18, the only female member of...

By Rukhshana Media 37 people have been killed and 70 have been wounded after a suicide attack targeted a Shiite...

By Rukhshana Media  Documenting the Taliban’s violation of international law in a new report released on Thursday, Amnesty International demanded...

By Kobra Nader  The Taliban have allowed teenage girls back to school in some parts of Afghanistan, but for mathematics...

By Laila Yousufy It was one of the earliest signs of the Taliban’s return to power: the whitewashing of women’s...

By Rukhshana Media  A young couple in Afghanistan’s central Ghor province was accused of having sexual relations outside of marriage,...

By Maryam Mursal Two weeks ago, Major Alia Arefi, the 45-year-old director of the women’s prison in Herat in western...

By Maryam Mursal Monisa Rezaee, 35, has taught literacy for the past 15 years. But last week she lost her...

By Hawa Mahmoodi At 1 pm on October 8, when worshipers gathered for Friday prayer, an explosion took place inside...