In this special coverage, Global Voices is publishing stories of nine Afghan girls who share how the Taliban restrictions have affected their lives and what hopes they bear for the future.

KABUL: The woman was furious. Standing in the muddy lane sloping up the hill in one of the Afghan capital's poorer ...

When the Taliban took Kabul in 2021, the world watched as Afghans clung to departing planes, hoping desperation might carry ...

Nestled in a high-altitude valley in Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush mountain range, Kabul is rapidly running out of water ...

Police, doctors and other officials used the Southport killer’s autism to excuse his previous acts of violence, the inquiry ...

Days before the United States and Israel launched their airstrikes on Iran, Pakistan was declaring “open war” on Afghanistan. Few seemed to notice.

Khomeini’s revolution was followed quickly by an Iranian student faction’s seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran (the “nest of spies” they called it) and Jimmy Carter’s inability to negotiate the ...

Suspected militants have opened fire on a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in northwestern Pakistan, killing one of them and wounding four others ...

Malala Yousafzai spoke about her recent memoir, mental health journey and goals for future advocacy at a Saturday event.

The death toll from a shooting in western Afghanistan rose to 11 on Saturday, after gunmen targeted civilians at a picnic ...

A doctor from a hospital in Herat province told the BBC the victims were Hazara Shia Muslims. The doctor said the victims had gone to a local shrine for a picnic. He gave a higher casualty figure than ...