T20 World Cup, NZ vs AFG: Rashid Khan has spoken out on whether Afghanistan should encourage women's cricket in the country.

It’s been more than four years since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan - and according to human rights organisations, the situation for women and girls is only getting progressively worse - with ...

According to UNICEF, 2.2 million girls are currently deprived of their right to secondary education, with hundreds of ...

Afghanistan’s most recognisable cricketing face, Rashid Khan, has finally addressed one of the most sensitive and closely ...

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 ...

In the wake of a series of earthquakes that have devastated eastern Afghanistan, the humanitarian response remains critically underfunded, with Western donors slow to act and gender-based restrictions ...

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 ...

Early this summer, a group of congresswomen returned from a visit to Afghanistan. Their takeaway: “Women are now participants—and in many cases, leaders—in a society that once systematically ...

It has been four years since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan on Aug 15, 2021. Since that day, women’s and children’s rights have been curtailed, and, so to speak, the lands and homes they ...

No school. No work. No speaking outside. No healthcare without an increasingly scarce female provider. No dissent. No justice. This is the horrific reality for women and girls in Afghanistan since the ...

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 ...