Afghanistan
Prominent Afghan news organization reports on life under Taliban rule from Maryland
The investigative newspaper Etilaatroz opened a new newsroom in an office building in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC.
US special envoy: Taliban ‘puts women’s right at peril everywhere’
He spoke out against banning girls’ education. The Taliban silenced him.
'There is hope': Malala Yousafzai promotes tolerance, connection with new documentary
A Chinese company strikes a deal with the Taliban to extract oil from Afghanistan
Afghan women say they are ‘dying in slow motion’ after killing of former female MP
Mursal Nabizada, who decided to remain in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over in 2021, was killed by gunmen on Jan. 15, along with her bodyguard. A friend and former colleague of hers, Fawzia Koofi, speaks with The World’s host Marco Werman about her memories of Nabizada and the ongoing plight of women in the country.
‘I am living through my worst nightmare’: Women aid workers in Afghanistan react to ban on employment
Women who work for nongovernmental organizations in Afghanistan are in shock after the group announced a ban on female employees.
Education for women 'is an Afghan value and an Islamic right,' says male professor in solidarity against university ban
Male faculty members have stood up in solidarity with Afghan women following a Taliban decree banning them from attending universities. Obaidullah Baheer, a lecturer at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, discusses the situation with The World's host Marco Werman.
Taliban: Assailants attack hotel in Afghan capital Kabul
Three Afghan locals have been killed, with others injured — including two foreigners — after gunmen attacked a Kabul hotel frequented by Chinese nationals on Monday.
These Afghan women soldiers made it out of Afghanistan. Their next battle is making it in the US.
About 40 members of a special, all-women Afghan platoon that worked alongside the US military barely made it out of Afghanistan last year. Now, they want to put their training to use even though they remain in a legal limbo. But that hasn’t stopped them learning English and getting an education.
Safe and unsilenced: Afghan scholars find refuge at US universities
As they watched the Taliban take over Kabul, a group of Bay Area universities got together to bring Afghan scholars to the US by funding their residencies.
'We are erased': The fight to reopen girls secondary schools in Afghanistan continues
This past week, girls in the province of Paktia in eastern Afghanistan went to the streets to protest. The Taliban had reopened their schools but ordered them shut again. Girls’ education in Afghanistan has become a sensitive topic since the Taliban came to power last year. They have closed down nearly all secondary schools for girls in the country.
Afghanistan marks 1 year since Taliban seizure as woes mount
Monday marks a year since the Taliban seized the Afghan capital Kabul, a rapid takeover that triggered a hasty escape of the nation's Western-backed leaders, sent the economy into a tailspin and fundamentally transformed the country.
Top al-Qaeda leader killed with help from on-the-ground intel on his whereabouts, analyst says
President Joe Biden has announced that the US has killed al-Qaeda’s top leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan. Zawahiri was on the US' most-wanted list and had a $25 million bounty on his head.
Afghan women who escaped Taliban takeover continue their education at a Wisconsin university
The students were able to escape Kabul because of the efforts of their school, the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh, which was holding remote classes for the students living in Kabul during the coronavirus pandemic.