This is, in essence, a gender apartheid, and that’s exactly what Afghan women activists and other humant rights experts are ...

Amelia Earhart, renowned as the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, fearlessly confronted her apprehensions about failure and the unknown, becoming a beacon of inspiration for ...

In the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, earlier this month, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders to challenge the Taliban on women and girls’ education. She was speaking at a ...

Afghanistan was tipped to the brink of economic crisis in 2021 as the Taliban took over and all development and security assistance to the country was frozen, with restrictions also placed on the ...

Huda Ahmed was 13 when Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, becoming the youngest Nobel laureate at the time. It was also when Yousafzai became a personal hero for Huda. So ...

The Pakistani Taliban has been growing in power and ambition since its ally across the border retook control of Afghanistan in 2021. In recent months, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP ...

The call by 30,000 people who have signed a petition in Britain to nominate the shot girl comes on the eve of this Saturday’s “Global Day of Action” for Yousufzai, marking one month since ...

In the last three decades, the country has been occupied by Soviet troops and US-led international forces, and in the years in between has been ruled by militant groups, including the infamously ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Afghans walk by the Serena hotel in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, March 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus ...

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A man who repeatedly burnt the Quran in 2023 in Sweden, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead, media reported Thursday as police confirmed a man died in a shooting the day before.