In this 2020 video, meet Shaesta Waiz, the first civilian-certified woman pilot from Afghanistan. Shaesta discovered her passion for aviation despite minimal exposure growing up. She pursued her dream ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It had previously been disrupted after the Taliban regained power in 2021, banning girls’ education beyond the sixth grade and restricting Afghan women from traveling without male companions.

It had previously been disrupted after the Taliban regained power in 2021, banning girls’ education beyond the sixth grade and restricting Afghan women from traveling without male companions.

Following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, Pakistan hoped for the restoration of peace and stability. However, the Taliban’s return to power and its apparent policy to ...

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — The last Afghan special immigrant visa applicants housed at Rhine Ordnance Barracks have departed, effectively ending the involvement of the U.S. military in Germany in ...

The Taliban did not immediately comment on Pakistani assertions that they would let Afghan girls pursue higher education in the neighboring country. Pakistan offers fully funded scholarships to ...

An Afghan national is accused of attempting to kill his caseworker, who is also from Afghanistan, in a stabbing in Orion Township that authorities said may have been motivated by religion.