Afghanistan’s female robotics team, the Afghan Dreamers, gained international recognition for winning a silver medal at the 2017 FIRST Global Challenge.

Afghanistan has been cloaked in "darkness" since the return of the Taliban government three and a half years ago, but the country's former women's affairs minister insists the problem "can be solved".

The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity ...

Her identity is withheld for security reasons Feb 7 2025 (IPS) - Since the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan in 2021, girls and women have been systematically banned from education, making ...

Banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Chief Mullah Fazlullah has been killed in a US drone attack in Kunar province of Afghanistan. Spokesman for Afghan Ministry of Defence Mohammad Radmanish and a ...

“We are being unjust to 20 million people,” referring to nearly half of the Afghanistan population of girls and women. His public remarks, made at a graduation ceremony in Khost ...

A senior Taliban minister, who publicly condemned the group’s ban on education of girls and women, has reportedly fled Afghanistan amid fears of arrest. Sher Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban’s ...

Although Afghan women and girls have made strides in education, the economy, health care, politics, and broader civil society since the 2001 U.S.-led intervention, these advances remain fragile.

Afghan women and girls have been banned from receiving an ... Laghman, Nuristan and Kunar, and split her time between studying and working. Her friends enrolled as a last resort, hoping to work ...

Cricket Australia has chosen not to play bilateral matches against Afghanistan, citing the Taliban’s human rights restrictions for women and girls since returning to power. But boycotts often ...

As a member of the Afghan military's Female Tactical Platoon, Farida Mohammadi served alongside U.S. Army soldiers seeking out the Taliban. Her job was to work with women and children, searching ...

NOW, 11 NEWS DID REACH OUT TO THE MARYLAND INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, AND THEY TOLD US THAT THEY ARE NOT COMMENTING ON THE SITUATION, REPORTING LIVE HERE A girl was mistaken for someone else and ...