In the weeks leading up to the Taliban takeover in August, Alia’s voice on the radio became familiar to many in northern ...

Since seizing power in 2021, Afghanistan's Taliban administration has rolled back hard-fought rights won by Afghan women and girls during two decades of rule by American-backed governments. The ...

On Saturday, the first day of Ramadan, Whitney Wright, an American adult film actress, released new images documenting her ...

Since the Taliban returned to power, media have been censored and radio stations in particular forced off the air. Yet, curiously, one foreign broadcaster endures: the BBC. On 1 December 2022, the ...

She was 20 years old, dreaming of a fulfilled life. The smart, ambitious young woman was among 20 Afghan women and girls enrolled in a secret school, seeking knowledge and a future. But the Taliban ...

Meena’s Path: The Road to Afghan Women’s Liberation from the Chains of Imperialism and Fundamentalist Fascism! The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) honored the memory of ...

The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) honored the memory of Meena on the 38th anniversary of her martyrdom. The event took place in one of Afghanistan’s provinces under ...

All photos are from RAWA orphanages in Afghanistan and Pakistan ...

There never has been any reliable demographic statistics on Afghanistan for the past three decades. Of the estimated 16 million Afghans at the end of the 70s, over two million have been killed in the ...