Relations between Europe and the US are unquestionably in crisis, so merely keeping things together as French President Emmanuel Macron did at the White House on Monday stands as an achievement. He did that by praising, flattering and gently cajoling

Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were detained by the Taliban's interior ministry on 1 February.   The arrest of a British couple in Afghanistan was over a "misunderstanding", the Taliban has said. Peter Reynolds, 79, and his

Deputy Foreign Minister's departure follows reported tensions with Supreme Leader over girls' education. On 26 January 2025, several independent anti-Taliban media outlets and journalists reported that Shir Muhammad Abbas Stanikzai, Taliban Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, had left Kabul

  Surge in Threats, Rape, Assault, Wrongful Detention (New York) – Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Afghans and people who do not conform to rigid gender norms in Afghanistan have faced an increasingly desperate situation and grave threats to their safety

Women leaving the education colleges on Tuesday Women training as midwives and nurses in Afghanistan have told the BBC they were ordered not to return to classes in the morning - effectively closing off their last route to further education

  Nila Ibrahimi beat 165 other nominees to be named this year's International Children's Peace Prize winner When Nila Ibrahimi set out to build a website telling the stories of Afghan girls, it wasn't just to give them a voice.

A young journalist who escaped Afghanistan returns a year later, by reote, to report the reality for the women left behind There has been a small but steady wave of recent stories focused on the plight of women in Afghanistan,