Afghanistan
A Chinese company strikes a deal with the Taliban to extract oil from Afghanistan
Beijing signs onto a deal with the Taliban to extract oil from the north of Afghanistan. Graeme Smith, a senior consultant for the International Crisis Group, discusses the implications of the agreement with The World's host Carol Hills.
Afghan women say they are ‘dying in slow motion’ after killing of former female MP
‘I am living through my worst nightmare’: Women aid workers in Afghanistan react to ban on employment
Education for women 'is an Afghan value and an Islamic right,' says male professor in solidarity against university ban
Taliban: Assailants attack hotel in Afghan capital Kabul
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 musicians in Portugal reimagine their musical futures
Musicians with the Afghanistan National Institute of Music arrived in Portugal in December 2021 with high hopes of working again in their profession. But six months later, the future remains uncertain for them.
‘They may not know my face in the future’: Female news anchors anguished by Taliban order to cover head to toe
There is concern that the Taliban may decide to ban female anchors altogether from the newsroom according to their interpretation of Islamic law.
Afghan women say Taliban's new rules aim to make them 'disappear from public life'
The Taliban in Afghanistan have announced new rules requiring women to cover their faces when in public. The decree also says that women should only leave home when necessary. This is the latest in a series of restrictions imposed on women since the group came to power last summer.
Amid chaos, young Afghan refugees find something familiar in St. Louis — soccer
Dozens of young refugees from Afghanistan gather on Saturday afternoons in St. Louis for something that’s crucial to their successful resettlement in a new land: getting to just be kids.
As Canada prioritizes expedited arrivals for Ukrainians, at-risk Afghans remain trapped abroad
Canada plans to accept unlimited numbers of Ukrainians fleeing the ongoing Russian invasion. Meanwhile, progress remains slow in the resettlement of 40,000 Afghans.