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 ...

RAWA: 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 ...

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 ...

In the last six months alone, over 250 women have committed suicide in the country (IRIN News, August 21, 2007). Based on the figures given by the Ibn-e Sina Emergency Hospital in Kabul more than 600 ...

Afghan parliamentary election is due in September, the list of candidates includes hundreds of warlords and those accused of war crimes and brutalities against Afghan people. Many of them still have ...

Tens of thousands of people from Helmand, Zabul and Uruzgan provinces have been displaced from their villages as a result of the US/NATO bombardments and Taliban insurgency. Over 700 families are ...

A so-called secret "kill team" of a group of US soldiers killed innocent Afghan civilians brutally, mutilated their dead bodies, took photos with them, circulated the photos among other soldiers and ...