Overwhelmed with joy, Zakia Khudadadi threw herself and her equipment into the air as she celebrated making history Thursday by winning the Refugee Team’s first medal at a Paralympic Games.

PARIS — Zakia Khudadadi made history on Thursday at the Paris Paralympics by becoming the first athlete from the Refugee Paralympic Team to win a medal. Khudadadi won bronze in the women’s ...

Zakia Khudadadi made history on Thursday by becoming the first athlete from the Refugee Paralympic Team to win a medal at the Paralympics. Khudadadi, originally from Afghanistan but now living and ...

Zakia Khudadadi, a taekwondoka who was set to become Afghanistan's first female Paralympian, has asked for help to travel to Tokyo amid the Taliban's takeover of her home country.

Zakia belongs to the Hazara ethnic group in Afghanistan - a numeric minority group in the country which is subjected to discrimination and persecution at the hands of the Taliban and IS-K.