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...

It was midnight when another wave of pain struck. Begum, 35, thought it was finally time for her child to...

The Taliban have asked educational centers not to allow girls without prayer scarves in Herat province, at least five educational...

Human rights groups and activists have condemned the Taliban decision to only permit male students to sit Afghanistan’s university entrance...

There have been at least 89 documented cases of violations against journalists and media outlets in Afghanistan by Taliban members...