Afghanistan, a nation often misunderstood, is experiencing peace for the first time in over 40 years. However, under Taliban rule, women's rights are eroding daily. This video documents a solo journey ...

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Jamila Afghani, one of Afghanistan’s top women’s-rights activists, credits her success to having had polio as a child. Born in 1976 with a crooked leg that her family blamed on evil spirits, she was ...

Fazelminallah Qazizai was in Kabul on August 15, 2021, when that city fell to the Taliban. He's a journalist. He is NPR's producer in Afghanistan. Here is what he told us last year about that day.

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — Ahmad Khan Safi had a good life in Afghanistan. The farmer raised livestock in the Dewagal Valley of Kunar Province, and people traveled from across the country to visit ...

Zahra Nader worked for many years as a reporter in Kabul. Journalist Zahra Nader in an undated photo. Joel van Houdt for Sahar Speaks In another tragic day in Kabul, terrorists attacked two police ...

Photographer Rodrigo Abd, based in Lima, spent months on assignment in Afghanistan in the years after the dispersal of the Taliban government in 2001 and learned how to use a traditional Afghan “box ...

Aziz* was 10 when he witnessed his father's murder in Afghanistan. Aziz, his older brother, sister and mother, had to run for their lives. Aziz and his brother went to Iran. Here, he tells his story.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Some Afghan women employed by the United Nations have been detained, harassed and had restrictions placed on their movements since being banned by the Taliban from working for the ...

Afghanistan features on this year’s Emergency Watchlist as some 23.7 million people—just over half of the population—urgently need humanitarian support. The crisis in Afghanistan largely stems from ...

A top United Nations official said Wednesday that “Afghanistan under the Taliban remains the most repressive country in the world regarding women’s rights.” Since taking power nearly 19 months ago, ...