The BBC speaks to young women who are now working to support their families in one of few jobs they are allowed to do.

Religious schools increasingly offer a range of subjects as the mainstream education ban enters its fourth year.

The Afghan baby pictured being passed to U.S. troops over a wall outside the Kabul airport in August is now safe with her family in the Phoenix area, CBS News reports. The 8-week-old girl ...

These guitarists – 18-year-old Yasemin aka Jellybean ... until the end of June to some Afghan refugees in Pakistan, that doesn’t cover the four guitarist girls and their families, who don ...

The doctors who treated her initially feared for her life but now, at five months old, they are hopeful that one day she will walk. More than 3,000 people have been confirmed dead after last week ...

His 13-year-old daughter still wears a neck brace weeks ... action following the alleged violent targeting of three Afghan girls at Paul Revere Middle School on March 3. "According to the families ...

But the 20-year-old Afghan woman could not defy her country’s Taliban rulers. They have not just banned all sports for women and girls, they have actively intimidated and harassed those who once ...

She was just 12 years old when she was told she ... the enforced wearing of the hijab. The Afghan Centre for Human Rights calls the ban on older girls attending school a "systematic and targeted ...