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By Nafiza This story was published in partnership with Rukhshana Media and The Fuller Project. One day before the fall of Kabul, I...

By Laila Yousufy Four years ago, government worker Najiba Bahar was killed in a suicide attack in the Afghan capital,...

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 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 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...

By Hawa Mahmoodi Martial arts teacher Shafiqa Sadat Mohseni was coaching her students at her small club in the west...