The rising drug and medication addiction among women and girls in Afghanistan is one of the many inadvertent destructive ...

The Taliban employ many weapons in pursuit to of a new Islamic order. One of the more effective may be an American who volunteers as their PR representative. Laili Helms, 35, from New Jersey, arranges ...

The Taliban were searching for prey in every corner. That day (August 13, 2000) hunting was in the fruit market in Kabul. Scared people were shivering and many were asking what it was that brought the ...

The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) turns 30 this year. For three long decades they have operated underground - first during Soviet occupation, then under the iron fist of ...

All photos are from RAWA orphanages in Afghanistan and Pakistan ...

- 309,000 children under five years of age die each year; under-five mortality rate ranks fourth worldwide - The education of girls is banned in over 90 per cent of the country. - Only 17 per cent of ...

This was the advertisement published in the newspaper "Advertisement" (in Persian) in the 144th Issue on Nov. 22, 2000 in Kabul: Mr Hasem, son of Mr Qasim bid 500 whips to be needed by the Amro bil ...

Towards the end of July 1998, the junior students of the Department of Law and Political Sciences at Kabul University went together to their classroom to find out about the exam procedure given by ...

Since Taliban forces effectively overthrew the Afghan government in August 2021, the Taliban and various armed groups, including the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant-Khorasan (ISIL-K), ...