Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where women are denied the right to study, work, or speak freely, a group of young women risk ...

Afghan American educator Hamayun Khan expands education and career opportunities for Afghan youth through SolaTeach and New ...

An educational lifeline for young Afghan women banned by the Taliban from training as doctors in their homeland is in jeopardy after Pakistan’s medical authorities tried to have them expelled.

A young Afghan girl found wearing a suicide vest has spoken of how she escaped her family after they allegedly told her to blow up a police checkpoint. Spozhmai, who is 10 years old and was identified ...

A series of Pakistani air strikes on residential areas in Afghanistan’s Paktika province has killed three young Afghan cricketers and five civilians, leaving seven others injured. The attacks, which ...

Sami Sadat is the highest-ranking army officer in southern Afghanistan — and is leveraging social weapon in the fight against the Taliban – Copyright AFP/File ...

For 17 years, the world knew her face but not her story. In 1984, a young Afghan girl sat inside a refugee camp in Pakistan, displaced by war, her future unknown. Photographer Steve McCurry took a ...

With his hands in the air and an infectious grin spreading from ear to ear, a young Afghan boy whirls around a Kabul hospital room on his new prosthetic leg. The boy, five-year-old Ahmad Sayed Rahman, ...

TEHRAN, Islamic Republic of Iran, February 2016 (UNHCR) -Rozhan is a bright 30 year old young Afghan woman and the eldest among the three siblings in her family. Born and educated in Iran, she ...