Afghan players fled the country in 2021 after the Taliban banned women's sports. Their return to international competition ...

Director Anita Doron blasted the “shocking” decision by the MPAA to slap an NC-17 rating on “Maya & Samar,” an Athens-set ...

More than 20 countries already ban or restrict burqas and niqabs (full-body and face coverings) worn by some Muslim women in ...

Martina Navratilova made her feelings known about the Taliban's controversial 'eye' restriction on Afghan women.

SAT-7’s newest educational program is reaching an audience obscured from most of the world: women and girls in Afghanistan.

She shared how she got out with ABC News in an emotional video call. "Everything bad that you think of was there," Sarina told ABC News in a video call, wiping away tears. "I was feeling like, 'I'm ...

The activist read aloud a letter from a 15-year-old Afghan girl. The United States must do more to support Afghan women and girls and their right to education and work, human rights activist Malala ...

By: Heidi Kwok, Staff Writer On October 7 and 10, Canadian Afghan filmmaker and SFU communication alum Brishkay Ahmed’s new feature documentary, In the Room, had its world premiere at the 44th ...

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar was among the first to call his Taliban counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi on ...

An Afghan woman deported from Tehran waits to be registered on arrival in her home country - Elise Blanchard/Getty A 17-year-old contemplates suicide. A 15-year-old is forced into child marriage. A ...

When the Taliban’s men came knocking at her house in January, Nooran* went and hid in her parent’s yard. “I did not want to be arrested along with my mother,” says the Afghan teen. Moments later, her ...

Among Afghans, there is a saying: “A woman can only be defeated by a woman.” In today’s Afghanistan, this expression takes on a painfully literal meaning. With women and girls barred from schools, ...