Dozens of eminent Afghans and experts on Afghanistan, in an open letter published on June 23, 2022, have called for the re-imposition of an international travel ban on the leaders of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban jihadi organization which seized power in 2021) for their continued harboring of Al-Qaeda and terror terrorist groups, war crimes, and abuse of women's rights.
From her home in Illinois, Asma Yawari has built a relationship with her younger cousin in Afghanistan that’s made the geographic distance between the two teenagers’ worlds seem, well, not quite so distant. They never met but have bonded over phone calls and messages swapping family photos and language lessons, sharing hair routines and…
As a wary world watches to see the Taliban s policies for women, many girls and young women in Afghanistan are afraid the future they ve envisioned may become out of reach
Since the Taliban’s return to power, Afghan girls abroad worry that the distance between their world and that of girl cousins in Afghanistan is growing in new ways.