Women and girls in afghanistan are defying the taliban at secret schools. ‘we are not alone’

OVER THE PAST 12 YEARS, the small family-health clinic in Melmastok, a remote mountainous community in Afghanistan’s central Daikundi province, has withstood multiple upheavals—from a Taliban insurgen

In 2000, Banu Mushtaq was subject to a fatwa for saying that it was not Islam itself that prohibited women from entering certain mosques, but the patriarchs of those mosques. Today the writer, lawyer

Lyse Doucet, the BBC’s chief international correspondent, has written a book about Afghanistan. She talks to Hattie Crisell about the recent earthquakes

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Baltimore, Maryland Deportation battle: The Trump administration’s ...

The tiny Gulf state has become a major player on the world stage, working to resolve some of the most intractable conflicts. Is it driven by a genuine wish to promote peace – or is it simply pursuing its own interests? Nesrine Malik reports