Featuring 21 players, the Afghanistan Women’s XI had their first cricket face-off in Melbourne, with hopes of opening up ...

The first match by the Afghan women’s cricket team is placing the Taliban under additional diplomatic pressure.

When the Taliban re-took control of Afghanistan in 2021, women were completely banned from playing sports. Many female athletes fled the country, fearing for their lives. Twenty-one cricket players ...

Afghanistan's women cricketers on Thursday played their first game since fleeing the Taliban three years ago, a charity match ...

“Afghanistan is no longer a place for any girl or woman to survive ... Those in exile in Pakistan include Afghan journalists ...

If the standard for participation in sports is political, then two of the countries where the outcries against the Afghan team are the greatest have also been accused of heinous human rights abuses in ...

"He knew my power then, that's why he wanted to shake hands, man's doing it!" Afghan Dan and Little T fought on the undercard of former UFC star Darren Till's fight against Anthony Taylor.

ISLAMABAD -- In August 2021, Pakistan celebrated the takeover of Kabul by the Afghan Taliban. "Afghanistan has broken the shackles of slavery," said a jubilant Imran Khan, then prime minister of ...

“Having the jury clear Zak’s name, find CNN liable for punitive damages, and then settle to avoid protracted appeals was the perfect way to resolve this case,” he said in a statement to the Time ...

But its author is the 14-year-old Afghan ... Then armed men in black turbans, as if to justify their fear, opened fire into the crowd. Samir was still with his parents when they saw a girl fall ...

“Right now, we are just dead ... what should happen to this little girl, that's the point we're gonna start fighting back," Mast told the media outlet. Last October, allegations were made that the ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has called for India’s inclusion in the ‘Afghan Quad’. The grouping, formally called the ‘Quadripartite Group on Afghanistan’, comprises Russia, China, Pakistan, ...