Khaled Hosseini, author of 'The Kite Runner', cautions against imposing parental dreams on children, likening them to unique individuals, n...

Pakistan Army has intensified operations along the Afghanistan border. Precision strikes targeted Afghan Taliban and TTP Fitna al-Khawarij ...

Mortars and missiles from Pakistan struck a university and homes in Afghanistan's Kunar Province, killing seven and wounding 85. Pakistan d...

Sher Abbas Stanikzai, a senior Taliban official, has publicly called on the group's leadership to lift bans on education for Afghan women a...

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend a summit on girls' education hosted by her native Pakistan, where she was nearly ki...

US special envoy for Afghan women, Rina Amiri, highlighted that the Taliban's restrictions on women in Afghanistan cost the nation over $1 ...

Millions of Afghan immigrants in Iran, especially women, face economic challenges and limited opportunities. Undocumented immigrants risk f...

The United Nations General Assembly is addressing the rights of Afghan women and children, particularly concerning the Taliban's ban on gir...

The ban on the education of Afghan girls and women has resulted in a surge in the risk of early marriage, violence and abuse in the country...

"We have noted with concern the reports in this regard. India has consistently supported the cause of female education in Afghanistan," Ari...

Despite promising a softer rule when they seized power last year, the Taliban have ratcheted up restrictions on all aspects of women's live...

Historically, women in Afghanistan enjoyed liberty and exercised all rights. It is as early as 1919 that Afghan women had their right to vo...

Several countries have been reiterating the Taliban to form an inclusive government in Afghanistan but the group continue to crack down on ...

During the weekend, the education ministry issued a diktat ordering male teachers and students back to secondary school -- but made no ment...

The hardline Islamist group that stormed to power in mid-August after ousting the Western-back government have vowed to rule differently co...

Education is the true key to emancipation of the mind; burkhas, hijabs and niqabs are just superficial impediments, just like skirts and tr...

Supreme Court of Afghanistan spokesman Ahmad Fahim Qawim, said the women were judges who worked for the high court but he did not identify ...