This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Twenty-five years ago an Afghan girl with green eyes haunted the cover of National Geographic. She became the iconic ...

A Brief History of Women's Rights In Afghanistan Think of women in Afghanistan now, and you'll probably recall pictures in the media of women being forced to wear full-body burqas, perhaps the famous ...

Still, captain Nahida Sapan said it should give hope to women in Afghanistan where sport has been disbanded and girls are banned from secondary education. “It means a lot for Afghan women ...

The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity ...

Pakistan security forces killed an Afghan national who was involved in terrorism inside Pakistan, the military’s media wing said on Saturday. “On February 6, 2025, an Afghan National involved ...

MUNICH - An Afghan national has admitted to purposefully driving into a crowd in the German city of Munich and the authorities have determined an Islamist motive for the crime, a prosecutor said ...