Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, in their latest trampling of women's rights, have ordered the closure of beauty salons across the nation, eliminating one of the last means Afghan women had of ...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have rounded up dozens of women in an apparent crackdown on perceived violations of the group's strict dress code. Dozens of women and girls were detained briefly last ...

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban are banning women's beauty salons in Afghanistan, a government spokesman said Tuesday. It's the latest curb on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls ...

Afghanistan remains within the top of Watchlist for 2023 – dropping from number one not because of an improvement in conditions, but because of the severity of the situation in East Africa. Here’s ...

President Donald Trump wants to recover billions of dollars' worth of equipment U.S. troops left in Afghanistan following their 2021 withdrawal from the country. "We left billions, tens of ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday addressed events in Afghanistan, saying they created the perception of "American weakness." While speaking to the Department of Defense and Pentagon ...

The end of the war in Afghanistan created a new refugee crisis. Thousands are still waiting for a chance to come to the United States. Abdul Wajed Ahadi, 31, is a pilot who conducted thousands of ...

The US and other governments and the World Bank Group revoked the credentials of the Central Bank of Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover on August 15, 2021. The US air strike on July 30 ...

The top U.S. general in Afghanistan during the American military’s 2021 withdrawal repeatedly warned Washington that security would get “very bad, very fast” after troops departed ...

Ms. Rezayee, one of Afghanistan’s first two female Olympians, is the founder and executive director of Women Leaders of Tomorrow, a nonprofit to empower Afghan women and girls through education ...

WASHINGTON — The Biden and Trump administrations did not sufficiently plan for "worst-case scenarios" ahead of the U.S. withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in summer 2021, according to a State ...