Poverty, rights abuses, and unemployment are driving Afghan families to desperation as activists urge global action.

In 2021, dread and despair returned for women in Afghanistan. The Ashraf Ghani-led government, backed by the United States, collapsed after the Taliban seized control of Kabul. With their return came ...

A worsening malnutrition crisis is having dire effects on women and girls in Afghanistan who are failed by the international ...

In Afghanistan, around 22 million people need humanitarian assistance, and over 11 million of them are children.

FIFA has sanctioned the establishment of an Afghanistan women’s refugee team which will be able to participate in matches overseen by world football’s governing body. Such a move would see the ...

Afghanistan's IOC member Samira Asghari, left, pictured in Kabul in 2011 with former US golfer Eddie Bullock during an introductory lesson for a group of Afghan children [Musadeq Sadeq/AP] Afghanistan ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — 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 ...

Amidst the ancient artefacts of Afghanistan's National Museum, a seemingly ordinary tour group stood out for one extraordinary reason: every member, including their guide, was a woman. This all-female ...