There are moments in everyone's life when it feels as though everything has come to an end—overwhelmed by pressure, stress, ...

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 ...

In the latest of our Letters from Afghan Women, a young woman opens up about keeping hope alive despite threats to her life ...

In 2025, Afghan women and girls faced widespread exclusion from education and work, worsening poverty, limiting economic ...

The Year 2025 proved to be an extremely painful year for women in Afghanistan. Under the Afghan Taliban regime, Afghan women ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — 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. But ...

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 — ...

Afghanistan's female footballers have been fighting in exile to get back to playing internationally for years. Earlier this ...

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 ...

A tournament that included a team of refugee women's soccer players from Afghanistan has been moved to Morocco and shifted to later this week, FIFA confirmed Wednesday. The tournament, dubbed FIFA ...