Jan Mersa Mohammad was a small child when his family fled the conflict in Afghanistan, making part of the journey to Europe on foot and by boat. Now 14 and settled in Budapest, Jan feels at home in his new country and dreams of making a career as a professional soccer player.
The Taliban is waging a deadly crackdown on members of Afghanistan's small community of Salafists, an ultraradical Islamic sect. The move comes as fighting intensifies between the Taliban and its rival, Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) militants, many of whom are Salafists.
Mursal Kohistani, a student from Parwan province in Afghanistan, spoke to RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi on October 20. In her words, although secondary and high schools are still open for girls, little is happening in them. (RFE/RL's Radio Azadi)
Locals say a protest that took place in Kabul on October 21 shows the increasing desperation of Afghan women, whose freedoms have been stripped away by the Taliban since the hard-line Islamists seized power on August 15.
Human Rights Watch accuses the Taliban of forcibly displacing hundreds of families across Afghanistan, mainly as a form of “collective punishment” against ethnic Shi’ite Hazaras and people associated with the former government.
A group of prominent Afghan women has urged the United Nations to pressure the Taliban to uphold its promises on women’s rights before deciding who should fill the country’s seat at the world body.
Pakistan's foreign minister has visited Kabul for the first time since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, pledging to help its neighbor avoid an economic collapse.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is considering removing the Taliban from its list of extremist organizations as it expands engagement with the new rulers in Kabul.
World soccer's governing body FIFA says a second group of 57 Afghan refugees linked to women’s soccer and basketball has been evacuated from Afghanistan to Qatar.
Taliban militants have attacked several journalists covering a Kabul rally by a group of women demanding "work, bread, and education," spurring concerns about the deterioration of the rights situation under Afghanistan’s new rulers.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is calling on United Nations agencies and governments to increase their support for Afghans at risk who are seeking to flee their homeland or have already fled and are now in countries neighboring Afghanistan, transit countries, and countries of resettlement.
Russia hosted a high-level Taliban delegation for talks, seeking to assert its influence on Central Asia amid worries about instability or violence spilling from Afghanistan into neighboring countries.
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