As salons are banned and jobs vanish, Afghan women find precarious ways to survive under strict Taliban mandates.

Under the new Taliban rule, male and female students who are studying in the same classroom must be separated by a curtain. For Farzana, that's not the priority though.

From underground hair salons to selling makeup and jewelry online, a report by The Washington Post details the daily struggles that women in Afghanistan face.

In a landmark move for global gender justice, systemic persecution of Afghan women under Taliban rule is now formally ...

The Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan has left women questioning their futures in the country. Many fear a repeat of the group's harsh 1996-2001 rule, when women were barred from school and ...

Top: Government soldiers prepare to counter a Taliban attack near the outer gate of Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan, on Dec. 8. Above: Taj Mohammed, 43, was displaced from his farm in Balkh province ...

President Joe Biden has no regrets about withdrawing American combat troops from Afghanistan. And he used the drone strike that killed longtime al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Kabul as the ...

A 45-year-old man who married a six-year-old girl shocked the Taliban with his abhorrent wedding ceremony, with the militant ...

First days of life under Taliban rule: ‘My daughter hasn’t gone to school in two weeks’ ‘There are no women on the streets now. Even if you see anyone, they’ll be fully covered in a burqa’ ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with the Kathy Gannon of the Associated Press about what she's witnessed in Kabul as Afghans react to life under Taliban rule.

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