An increasing number of young Afghans, including women, are turning to mountaineering to celebrate and promote their country’s natural beauty and tourism potential.
Zimbabwe's cricket squad arrived in Pakistan on October 20 minus their Indian coach, who had been advised to stay away from the rival South Asian nation.
The United States is pressing authorities in Afghanistan to bring to justice an influential former head of the South Asian country’s soccer federation who is on the run from criminal charges of sexually assaulting multiple female players.
An Afghan operation to apprehend the fugitive former head of the national soccer federation has reportedly failed after a standoff with armed locals in northeastern Afghanistan.
An Afghan cricket superstar says he sees a bright future for his country’s team if cricketers commit to consistent hard work in the sensational sport.
Former Afghan football official Mohammad Hanif Sediqi Rustam has been banned from the sport for five years and fined 10,000 Swiss francs after being found guilty by FIFA's ethics committee of violations relating to the abuse of female players.
Iranian soccer fans and players paid tribute to a woman who died after challenging Iran's ban on female spectators.
Cricket, soccer, and mountain biking are all popular in Afghanistan, but another sport is getting a grip on local athletes. In Kabul, a growing number of men, and a few women, are playing a new European import: rugby.
A "culture of abuse" continues to thrive at Afghanistan's soccer federation because of world soccer governing body FIFA's "apparent inaction" in a sexual abuse scandal involving female Afghan players, according to the national women's team coach.
Afghanistan’s national soccer team coach Kelly Lindsey said soccer governing body FIFA is moving slow and needs to broaden the scope of its investigation into sexual abuse involving Afghan women players.
Afghan authorities have issued an arrest warrant for the former head of Afghanistan's national soccer federation in connection with allegations that he sexually abused female players for several years.
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