Tag: Afghanistan

Men must defend the rights of Afghan women and girls, a professor at a Kabul university says.

Women in Afghanistan are protesting against the Taliban’s ban on female students attending university.

The attack has left residents of the capital reeling and frantically searching for family members.

Lyse Doucet reports from Afghanistan on what the Taliban’s takeover has meant for its people.

The BBC visits a ward where mothers are forced to share beds and have no access to pain relief.

The head of the UK’s armed forces says two investigations found unlawful killings “did not happen”.

At least 1,000 people have died in Afghanistan’s worst earthquake in two decades

Caring for victims is a challenge in a country already in the grip of a humanitarian crisis.

Near the epicentre of the quake that struck Afghanistan this week, houses lie in ruins.

A worker at the only health clinic in Gyan in Paktika province, tells the BBC how they were overwhelmed.

The Taliban appeals for help as Afghanistan is shaken by its deadliest earthquake in two decades.

A 6.1 magnitude quake kills at least 1,000 people in the south-east, injuring hundreds more.

Members of Afghanistan’s tiny Sikh community speak of their fears for their safety after the attack.

Afghan women speak out against compulsory male chaperones and new mandate to wear all-covering veils.

Girls were in shock after high schools were abruptly shut after re-opening for the first time in months.

The country’s very youngest are casualties of a hunger crisis.

Some female students went back to campus for the first time since the Taliban takeover. How did it feel?

With access to the new Taliban government, Yalda Hakim travels back to Afghanistan to find out what the country is like under their rule.

Some of the 13,000 Afghan refugees living at a US military base in Wisconsin reflect on new lives.

With a collapsing economy and severe drought, Afghanistan’s drug trade is on the rise.

Doctors in Afghanistan’s crisis-hit hospitals are caring for their patients in almost impossible conditions.

The mission to rescue the national Afghan girls’ football team from the Taliban.

The BBC’s Yalda Hakim – who was born in Afghanistan- reports on the impact of 100 days of Taliban rule.

BBC reporter Yalda Hakim visits Kabul to look at four key areas of concern in Afghanistan.

In 2001, the BBC’s World Affairs editor was part of a team which entered the city when the Taliban fell.

Thousands of troops who were supposed to fight the Taliban did not exist, a former minister says.

Afghanistan faces widespread famine with millions affected, says the UN World Food Programme head.