Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have left Iran over the past weeks since Tehran gave more than four million undocumented ...

RAWA NEWS is a selection of news from Afghanistan which reflects the bitter realities of life in Afghanistan but rarely appear in the world media. The news uncover the disastrous life of Afghan women, ...

Fresh violence has broken out in Khash district of Badakhshan province, where armed clashes between Taliban forces and local ...

RAWA Responds to the Taliban Takeover It is a joke to say values like â womenâ s rightsâ , â democracyâ , â nation-buildingâ etc. were part of the US/NATO aims in Afghanistan!

The men who stoned a couple to death in north Afghanistan will be brought to justice, say officials, after footage of the killings came to light. The man and woman were accused of adultery in the ...

Over the course of six months, photographer Kiana Hayeri and researcher Melissa Cornet created a portrait of the lives of Afghan women under the strict regime of the Taliban. In a country facing one ...

Zalala Hashimi, a Pashto singer and finalist in Season 12 of Afghan Star, has been missing for over two weeks in Kabul. Her husband reported that she left home to visit a friend but never returned.

Since Taliban forces effectively overthrew the Afghan government in August 2021, the Taliban and various armed groups, including the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant-Khorasan (ISIL-K), ...

When Fawzia went into labor with her fifth child, she knew something was wrong. She felt like her insides were being ripped apart by knives. She bled so much that her clothes were soaked. "I did not ...

A number of retirees in Kabul have once again gathered in front of the Pension Fund Directorate to demand their unpaid pensions.

RAWANews: Local sources in Helmand say that a 45-year-old man, who already has two other wives, has married a 6-year-old girl. According to the sources, the girl’s father gave her in marriage to this ...