Manoozh Noori said she "wanted to die" when the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.Noori had defied family pressure to represent Afghanistan professionally by playing for the country's ...

Some four years after players from the Afghanistan women’s national team fled their homeland amid the Taliban’s takeover, a ...

The Taliban government asked her to leave. "I don't recognise the Taliban as Afghanistan's legitimate government, and they ...

Afghanistan is facing a near-total digital blackout as the Taliban cut both wired and mobile internet services nationwide. The shutdown, aimed at stopping ‘immoral activities’, has disrupted ...

The founder of Afghanistan’s national women's football team talks about their ongoing struggle for recognition.

The Afghan refugee team – now known as Afghan Women United – got their first win at the FIFA Unites: Women’s Series. The tournament concluded in Morocco with Chad finishing as champions, meaning that ...

A tournament that included a team of refugee women’s soccer players from Afghanistan has been moved to Morocco and shifted to ...

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Following a social media backlash, India’s Ministry of External Affairs claimed on Saturday it was not involved in the press event held on Friday by the visiting Afghanistan minister. What if the ...

Afghanistan women’s refugee team played their first match in a FIFA-organised four-team friendly competition in Morocco.

Afghanistan's female footballers were forced to flee to all parts of the globe after the return of the Taliban. After four ...