The BBC spends the day with women across Afghanistan to understand what their lives look like under the Taliban government.

The new film "Rule Breakers" tells the true story of an Afghan all-girl robotics team that captured global attention in 2017.

Credit: AP Photo/B.K. Bangash Most people don't know her by name, but she's recognized as the "Afghan Girl" with her striking green eyes on the cover of a 1985 National Geographic magazine cover.

An Afghan asylum seeker has been convicted of raping a 15-year-old schoolgirl after he followed her in Falkirk town centre, ...

Afghan women show embroidered clothes made by themselves at an embroidery plant in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, Dec. 9, ...

The Italian government announced on Thursday that Sharbat Gula, who in 1985 gained worldwide fame as the green-eyed 'Afghan Girl' image by photojournalist Steve McCurry, is in Rome being evacuated ...

This story appears in the December 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Twenty-five years ago an Afghan girl with green eyes haunted the cover of National Geographic. She became the iconic ...

A 2-year-old girl and her mother have died after they were injured in the car-ramming attack on a labor union demonstration in Munich, police said Saturday. A 24-year-old Afghan man who came to ...

In some regions, when a girl gets engaged, the groom’s family fires gunshots into the air as a token of joy and agreement between the two families. However, in certain cases, young men fires shots ...