With women banned from most jobs in Afghanistan, an embroidery boutique run by 22-year-old Rahima Alavi is a surprising and ...

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 ...

The Taliban’s newly reported criminal code in Afghanistan treats women as “slaves,” permits limited domestic violence, restricts their movement, and introduces class-based punishments. Here’s what the ...

An Afghan radio station produced entirely by Afghan women will resume broadcasts after the Taliban lifted a suspension that was imposed over alleged cooperation with a foreign country's TV channel.

Fourteen years ago, when I was 21, I visited Afghanistan for the first time since I was seven – the age I was when my mother fled the civil war ravaging my birth land – to make a documentary. We left ...

The United Nations on Tuesday urged the Taliban to respect the rights of women in Afghanistan, warning that the future of the nation depends on safeguarding the rights of all its citizens. The ...

Inspiring resilience and determination shine through this women operated restaurant in Afghanistan. Led entirely by women, ...

It has some of the world's most severe restrictions on women but that isn't stopping all-female tourist groups from visiting to see Afghanistan for themselves. Despite its "appalling human rights ...

If you think it’s impossible to underestimate the cultural significance of American Idol, go see British filmmaker Havana Marking’s documentary about its Afghani imitator, a smash hit TV show whose ...

The war in Afghanistan introduced Americans to a dirt-poor country peopled by fundamentalist mullahs, warlords, persecuted women hidden head to foot in the folds of heavy burkas — and little more.

Khalida Ahmadzai learned to make jalapeno chutney from her own mother. In her native Afghanistan, many varieties of jalapenos grow. They’re small and potent. “Yes, they are very spicy,” the new ...