As the world’s focus has shifted to other regions and conflicts — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war — the ...

Her identity is withheld for security reasons Feb 7 2025 (IPS) - Since the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan in 2021, girls and women have been systematically banned from education, making ...

An Afghan national has admitted to purposefully driving into a crowd of demonstrators in Munich, and authorities have determined an Islamist motive for the crime, a prosecutor said at a news ...

Globally, 122 million girls are out of school, according to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Of those, 2.5 million are banned from education in Afghanistan. Somaya ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher ...

The top prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) says he will seek arrest warrants against senior leaders of the Taliban government in Afghanistan over the persecution of women and girls.

In a country where women are banned from talking loudly in public and even looking out of the windows, one of the few female ...

The Taliban's acting deputy foreign minister called on his senior leadership to open schools for Afghan girls, among the strongest public rebukes of a policy that has contributed to the international ...

A senior Taliban person has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

Although Afghan women and girls have made strides in education, the economy, health care, politics, and broader civil society since the 2001 U.S.-led intervention, these advances remain fragile.