The plight of women in Afghanistan and the movement to recognize gender apartheid is a crucial step in protecting democracy, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A camp in Khas Kunar, eastern Afghanistan, for people displaced after the earthquake [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera] A devastating ...

ZURICH (AP) — The Afghanistan national women's soccer team of refugee players has its first official games next month at a four-team tournament in Dubai, FIFA said Wednesday. The FIFA-supported team — ...

UNFPA says more than 5 million women and girls in Afghanistan received health and psychosocial services with UK support, amid ...

The U.N. mission to Afghanistan also said it has recorded an almost constant stream of discriminatory edicts and measures against women since the Taliban takeover — women’s right to travel or work ...

United States-based female refugee soccer players from Afghanistan will not have access to FIFA-organised training camps that determine the selection process for the newly-created Afghanistan women’s ...

An Afghan woman uses her smartphone along a street in Kabul on June 18, 2025. Credit - Wakil Kohsar—AFP/Getty Images On Monday evening, internet and telephone communications were cut off across ...

Four years after players from the Afghanistan women's national team fled their homeland amid the Taliban's takeover, a number of the teammates are representing their country again in a soccer ...

When the Taliban were in power in Afghanistan, they shuttered girls’ schools, segregated many aspects of public life, including the workplace, and prevented women from leaving their homes unless ...

LONDON/ISLAMABAD, Oct 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Marzia has dedicated the past decade to treating some of Kabul's poorest women, but the midwife has now packed up her stethoscope along with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman and her daughter leaves the Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. | Siddiqullah ...