This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers July 4 ...

Faye Dail Hall had been held by the Taliban for one month after they said she illegally flew a drone in Afghanistan.

An American woman has been freed by the Taliban in Afghanistan after she, two Britons and their Afghan translator were detained earlier this year, Washington’s former envoy to Kabul, Zalmay ...

The Taliban have taken multiple steps to walk back women's rights including forbidding education for girls beyond grade six and banning women from universities.

Afghan women artists are playing a vital role in the women’s movement resisting Taliban abuses, and their contributions—and art—should be recognized, Human Rights Watch said today in a new ...

The Taliban has enacted a new measure prohibiting Afghan women from praying aloud or reciting the Quran in the presence of other women.

On the contrary, the Taliban are being upfront about how they view women and their plans for limiting women’s role in every segment of Afghan society.

Without women able to meaningfully join and engage in all aspects of their lives, including sports, they will remain second-class citizens. However, Afghan women have been defying the Taliban and ...

This week marks three years since the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and NATO allies from Afghanistan. It also marks three years of intensifying repression of women under the Taliban regime in what ...

The videos are meant to protest a law passed by the Taliban last week banning women’s voices in public and mandating that they cover their entire bodies.

Gazing into a mirror framed by flowers, Taiba Sulaimani begins to sing. The lyrics, in Farsi, offer a message of hope -- I will fly one day, I will be free one day.