Population growth, the climate crisis and relentless over-extraction have depleted groundwater levels, experts say.

Tehran, Iran – The wave of Afghan refugees and migrants being sent back from Iran has not stopped, with more than 410,000 ...

As salons are banned and jobs vanish, Afghan women find precarious ways to survive under strict Taliban mandates.

The wail of a woman in a floral dress reverberates through the malnutrition ward and down the stuffy hallways of a hospital in eastern Afghanistan: The unfiltered pain of a mother watching her ...

The couple were taken from their home in Afghanistan on Feb. 1, and were being held in a maximum security prison.

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has expressed concern about the Taliban's arrest of women and girls for alleged ...

In a landmark move for global gender justice, systemic persecution of Afghan women under Taliban rule is now formally ...

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Taliban leaders Hibatullah Akhunzada and Abdul Hakim Haqqani over alleged persecution of women and girls in Afghanistan. The ICC's decision ...

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Taliban leaders, accusing them of persecuting women, girls, and those non-conforming to gender norms. The warrants target Hibatullah ...

The BBC spent the day with women across Afghanistan to understand what life is like under the Taliban government since it took power in 2021 Taliban decrees seek to silence women in public, bar ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Sahar Fetrat a researcher at Human Rights Watch, about the lives of women in Afghanistan now, as the Taliban continue to limit their presence in public life.