An organization of American veterans, Afghans who fled their country and other volunteers has stepped up to help Afghans at risk of being stranded overseas ...
Taliban officials have arrested an Afghan educator who has been campaigning ... officials who tied his hands and blindfolded his eyes, his brother Amir Khan Zaland told The Independent.
The BBC spends the day with women across Afghanistan to understand what their lives look like under the Taliban government.
Overnight, Afghan women were driven out of classrooms ... When you see the spark in their eyes as they form letters for the first time, you remember why we can’t give up on education, no ...
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 ...
As a Greek woman in Afghanistan, I decided to live among ordinary Afghans to get a feel about their lives, worries and dreams ...
But for us Afghan women, the story is different ... I want to live a life where my heart is full of gratitude, not a life where my eyes are filled with tears, asking myself: "Why am I still ...