Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021, the fundamentalist group has banned education for women and girls post-primary school. Women cannot go to parks, and beauty salons and ...

More than three years after fleeing Afghanistan as the Taliban swept to power, a women's team of refugee cricketers will play an exhibition match in Melbourne on Thursday, hoping it will be a ...

Get in touch with Chloe Mayer by emailing [email protected] American flags on federal buildings across the nation will be flying at full-staff this week for the first time since new President ...

Human rights campaigners around the world have welcomed the surprise decision by the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court to seek warrants for the arrest of two senior Taliban officials ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An Afghan refugee woman, who asked not to use her name and not to show her face fearing her identity could ...

Taliban authorities in northeastern Afghanistan said Wednesday that a gun attack resulted in the death of a Chinese national, while his local interpreter escaped unharmed. An Afghanistan-based ...

The U.S. secured the release of two Americans held in Afghanistan in former President Joe Biden’s final hours in office in exchange for the release of an Afghan Taliban member in U.S. custody ...

About 1,700 people were expected to be moved out of Afghanistan over the next four months, he added. “These are folks who for one reason or another are at risk because of their association with ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - An executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump to suspend refugee admissions has magnified the fears of one Afghan American soldier who has long been worried ...

The scope of the order was not clear, including whether it applied to Afghanistan's humanitarian funding, which is channelled through NGOs and United Nations agencies. Jan Egeland, the secretary ...

For the Afghan survivors impacted by combat that Jewish Family & Childrens Services (JFCS) serves, art is a powerful tool for healing—helping express through creativity what cannot be said with words.