Afghan women’s football team back on international stage after escaping the Taliban - The Afghan women’s team escaped the ...

"This is one of the most worrying legal developments in Afghanistan under the Taliban," says Roqia Saee, a women's rights ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — With determination, courage and lots of support, refugee players who form the Afghan women’s ...

Under the Islamic fundamentalist group’s rule, the economy has floundered, malnutrition has soared, and more than half a ...

Despite the challenges, the women that researchers spoke to had not given up. Some are finding quiet ways to keep teaching.

In stop-start efforts since November, Taliban officials have cracked down on women and girls in the western city of Herat who have been ignoring the hardline group's rules by showing their faces.

For nearly five years, dozens of Afghanistan’s women soccer players have lived in exile — scattered across Australia, the United States and Europe — unable to officially represent their country’s ...

As earthquakes devastated parts of Afghanistan in late August, Taliban officials asked aid agencies to send more female health workers to assist female survivors. They also briefly barred female U.N.

ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Taliban Leaders Over Persecution of Women and Girls THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Tuesday for the Taliban’s ...

After escaping the Taliban and years in exile, Afghanistan women's soccer team rises again ...

After a frantic evacuation, 13 of the players settled in Australia where for five years they lived, played and trained in the ...