Poverty, rights abuses, and unemployment are driving Afghan families to desperation as activists urge global action.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Afghan women cricketers will finally get high-level support in a bid to rejoin international competition after the sport’s world governing body created a taskforce to ...

In 2021, dread and despair returned for women in Afghanistan. The Ashraf Ghani-led government, backed by the United States, collapsed after the Taliban seized control of Kabul. With their return came ...

In Afghanistan, around 22 million people need humanitarian assistance, and over 11 million of them are children.

FIFA has sanctioned the establishment of an Afghanistan women’s refugee team which will be able to participate in matches overseen by world football’s governing body. Such a move would see the ...

Afghanistan's IOC member Samira Asghari, left, pictured in Kabul in 2011 with former US golfer Eddie Bullock during an introductory lesson for a group of Afghan children [Musadeq Sadeq/AP] Afghanistan ...

In 2025, Afghan women and girls faced widespread exclusion from education and work, worsening poverty, limiting economic ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — They wandered through the museum, listening attentively as their guide explained the antiquities in display cabinets. It could have been any tour group, anywhere in the world ...