As It Happens5:59Former Afghan women's soccer captain fights for team's chance to compete in World Cup Khalida Popal, the former captain of Afghanistan's national women's football team ...

Afghanistan's Interior Ministry can take credit ... The Taliban also tried to kill Malala Yousafzai, a 16-year-old Pakistani girl championing women's rights. And look what happened - she became ...

When the news broke that the International Cricket Council would support Afghanistan’s exiled women cricketers, Firooza Afghan was overwhelmed. “I can’t describe my feelings,” she said ...

TAKARAZUKA, Hyogo Prefecture--Continuing instability in war-torn Afghanistan and advanced age are all that is stopping 85-year-old local resident Keiko Nishigaki from returning to the landlocked ...