Girls in Afghanistan are banned from schools and sport beyond the age of 12 but IOC member has hope for Taliban talks.

Afghanistan's International Olympic Committee member Samira Asghari has told AFP that the Taliban authorities must face the ...

On the 11th of December 2025, the People’s Tribunal for Women in Afghanistan issued an historic judgement on the gender ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Afghan women cricketers will finally get high-level support in a bid to rejoin international competition after the sport’s world governing body created a taskforce to ...

When the Taliban fell from power in Afghanistan in 2001, women were once again allowed to go to school after being banned since 1996. I, along with World Bank education expert Raja Bentaouet Kattan ...

FIFA is facing fresh calls to officially recognise the Afghanistan women’s football team. Members of the national side, as quoted in a report published by the Sport & Rights Alliance (SRA) on Tuesday, ...

A San Diego woman, originally from Afghanistan, had her U.S. citizenship ceremony canceled just days before she was scheduled ...

Afghan officials accuse Pakistan of refusing dialogue despite escalating tensions. They insist Islamabad has no joint ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — They wandered through the museum, listening attentively as their guide explained the antiquities in display cabinets. It could have been any tour group, anywhere in the world. But ...

The leader of the local immigrant resettlement agency read a statement from local Afghan women and their families during ...

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 ...