An Afghan Olympian once snuck into cycling races in a hijab. Then the Taliban took over.
Fariba Hashimi and her sister have defied the odds by escaping Afghanistan and racing at the Paris Olympics — in open resistance to the Taliban.
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COMIC: I led an all-women military unit in Afghanistan. Here's what happened when Kabul fell.
Meet the FTP, an all-female unit of Afghanistan's army that served missions alongside American forces, and had to survive the devastation and chaos of the fall of Kabul.
Pakistan is enforcing one of the largest deportations in recent history, pushing out millions of Afghans
See how one family packed up their entire life in Quetta, Pakistan, and crossed the border into Afghanistan, where they will live under Taliban rule.
The Taliban appears to be patrolling Kabul on rollerblades while carrying AK-47s, video shows
Taliban security forces can be seen maneuvering through the traffic of Kabul on rollerblades in a new video.
Pakistan forces out 1.7 million Afghan refugees
After Pakistan's government ordered "illegal" refugees to leave the country by October 31, Afghan families flocked to the border to beat the deadline.
The Taliban-controlled afghani has thrashed the US dollar this quarter, becoming the world's best-performing currency
The afghani has soared 9% against the greenback over the past three months, surging thanks to tight currency controls imposed by the Taliban.
Hillary Clinton's allies used a QR code from a bag of chips to make a visa look more official in a desperate bid to get women out of Afghanistan: book
Hillary Clinton was fearful of how the women would be treated once the Taliban took control after the US ended its longest war.
Taliban leader endorses Elon Musk's Twitter, accuses Mark Zuckerberg's Threads of having an 'intolerant' policy on free speech
Anas Haqqani, a senior Taliban leader, said Twitter has "important advantages" over competitors such as Meta's new Threads.
The Taliban says it has provided 'a comfortable and prosperous life' for women in Afghanistan. 'Absurd' says a human rights advocate.
The Taliban wants to dispel the narrative that its restrictive policies harm women to gain legitimacy on the world stage, a human rights expert told Insider.
Meta is playing a game of whack-a-mole with the Taliban as the isolated Afghan government increasingly attempts to use WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption for official business
Sanctions restricting US-based businesses working with the Taliban have been in place for more than two decades, The New York Times reported.
Afghanistan's Taliban needs money so badly they are selling tickets to monuments their own fighters smashed to pieces: report
The Taliban reduced Afghanistan's vast, ancient Bamiyan Buddhas to rubble in 2001. Now they're selling tickets to go visit.
How miners use war weapons to hunt for rare jewels in Afghanistan
Miners in Afghanistan use dangerous methods to hunt for rare jewels many of them couldn't afford to buy.
Thousands of Afghans who worked for the US have made a perilous 16,000-mile journey to the US-Mexico border to seek asylum in the last year
About 3,600 Afghans have made the journey to the US-Mexico border to seek asylum in the last year. Many of them worked for the US in Afghanistan.
The Taliban has detained a British influencer who says he travels to 'dark' and 'extreme' places for fun
Miles Routledge has posted about his extreme travel, including a video of himself claiming to enter Afghanistan on forged papers.
The Taliban posted photos of hundreds of US military vehicles it said were abandoned in the chaotic pullout of Afghanistan and now form part of its army
Afghanistan's rulers the Taliban claim to have rehabilitated hundreds of vehicles the US said it destroyed in its chaotic withdrawal in 2021.
9/11 victims are blocked from seizing $3.5 billion in frozen assets from Afghanistan because Biden would have to recognize the Taliban
A federal judge ruled that President Joe Biden would have to recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan's legitimate government to approve the seizure.
Some Taliban fighters are sick of the 9 to 5 grind, complaining they've been sucked into urban life by working desk jobs to run Afghanistan
Five Taliban fighters told researcher Sabawoon Samim they're only just learning to deal with working every day, using Twitter, and talking to women.
The Taliban requires all mannequins' heads be covered or cut off. Eerie storefront photos offer a glimpse of Afghanistan's new reality.
Shop owners in Afghanistan were forced to decapitate their mannequins or remove them altogether. They pleaded to veil their faces instead.
Iran cites Prince Harry's book in defending its decision to execute a British-Iranian citizen
Iran executed UK-Iran citizen Alireza Akbari on Saturday, drawing a harsh response from the UK government. Iran accused the UK of hypocrisy.
The Taliban bought Twitter's $8 a month blue ticks. They appear to have been removed after outrage.
The Twitter accounts of at least two Taliban officials and four known supporters of the regime were sporting the check marks on Monday, per the BBC.