This article was written by Arezo in 2025. It is being published with her consent as part of a special coverage series that tells the stories of young women and girls from Afghanistan following the ...

Pakistani security forces have clashed with militants in the country’s insurgency-hit southwestern province of Balochistan, killing 10 insurgents ...

Afghan women are now rarely leaving their homes, according to the United Nations' women's organization. Some five years since the Islamist Taliban took control of Afghanistan, UN Women said 52% of ...

The case against a man accused of killing 15 people at a Sydney Hanukkah celebration involved more than 800 witness ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday threatened retaliation for Western seizures of its commercial vessels, describing them as “piracy.” Speaking on a visit to a Russian warship that was ...

Iran’s invitation of the National Resistance Front to its capital last month suggests an unprecedented willingness to engage with Afghanistan’s opposition movements in public.

Half of Afghan women now leave their ‌homes only once or twice a month as Taliban-imposed restrictions curtail their freedom of movement and participation in public life, according to data released by ...

Ruqia Rezai slowly peels reddish bars of soap from a silicone mould and stacks them on top of one another. Her little workshop in western Afghanistan is in full swing, filling the air with the scent ...

Reform UK home affairs spokesperson Zia Yusuf said on social media that former defence secretary Sir Ben Wallace “took out a superinjunction to keep the British people in the dark” over a 2022 data ...

The West’s Afghanistan strategy has failed. In 2021, America withdrew from the country, ending two decades of fighting and ...

Five years after the Taliban reclaimed Afghanistan, 2.4 million girls remain locked out of secondary school, wiping away decades of progress and leaving a generation of young women without access to ...

Afghanistan remains the only country in the world where girls and women are formally banned from secondary and higher education,” a UNESCO official said.