The Taliban has intensified pressures and restrictions on media and journalists in the past year, according to the media watchdog...

The courtyard of Mehri’s* home is tastefully decorated with colorful flowers. Off the courtyard, is the small room that serves...

The Taliban have publicly whipped two individuals, including a woman in Istalif district of Kabul on charges of adultery on...

The day the Taliban stopped Somaiya Aswadi and her friends from entering the university campus, she swore she’d never submit...

Following the recent chaos in Bangladesh, hundreds of Afghan female students at the Asian University for Women are increasingly concerned...

The email cancelling Zulaikha's* asylum claim in Germany came without warning more than a year after she’d uprooted her family...

It's nearly three years since the brutal restrictions on girls and women of Afghanistan began making national and international headlines....

Afghanistan’s parataekwondo athlete Zakia Khudadadi has represented her country and team by carrying the Olympic torch as part of the...

It was getting dark in the crowded Pol-e Sokhta street of western Kabul, but Malalai*, with her wheelbarrow of ice...

The Taliban have publicly flogged three individuals, including a woman on charges of adultery and theft in Bamyan province on...