As the world’s focus has shifted to other regions and conflicts — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war — the ...

At the end of August 2024, a morality law further reinforced the repression. In Kandahar, women are no longer allowed to have cell phones. To describe what it's like, one has to go there.

One of the few officials in Afghanistan’s Taliban government to support reversing the ban on girls’ education appears to have ...

Afghan women and girls need every bit of global support they can get to push back against the Taliban’s unhinged misogyny.

Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada visited Kandahar University, urging a harmony between religious and modern education.

but his latest relatively harsh remarks represent the first direct challenge to the edicts issued by Akhudzada from his base in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar that primarily targeted women.

The Taliban’s reclusive leader has made a rare visit to a university in Afghanistan in his first known trip to a modern education institution. Hibatullah Akhundzada spoke of the importance of worldly ...

Czech skier Tereza Nova was placed in a medically induced coma after crashing in a training for Saturday’s World Cup women’s downhill ... training session on the Kandahar course.

In a clash of contrasting racing styles, Brignone had a technically well controlled run down the Kandahar course to finish 0.01 seconds ... record she already held as the oldest race winner in women’s ...