(Reuters) -The Afghan women's refugee team will take the field for the first time in an international tournament when they compete in a four-team friendly competition in the United Arab Emirates next ...

A team of Afghan refugees will participate in its first international soccer tournament, which will be a round-robin event for four women's national teams in the United Arab Emirates, FIFA announced ...

Afghan refugees, like all refugees, are those who are “persecuted or who (have) a well-founded fear of persecution” in their ...

Over four years have passed since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Claudia Janke’s photographic series features seven Afghan women who have found safety in the UK after escaping at great ...

Since the Taliban's return in August 2021, Afghan women's basic freedoms have been systematically curtailed, transforming them into privileges. Girls are barred from secondary education and ...

A FIFA-organised tournament involving the Afghanistan women’s refugee team has been moved from the United Arab Emirates to Morocco, the world football governing body said, with the four-team friendly ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — One after the other, the opportunities vanished. Like so many other Afghan women, Sodaba could do little but watch as her country’s new Taliban government imposed a ...

A coalition of churches in Memphis, Tenn., has joined the chorus of voices demanding justice for lawfully resettled Afghan ...

A tournament that included a team of refugee women's soccer players from Afghanistan has been moved to Morocco and shifted to later this week, FIFA confirmed Wednesday. The tournament, dubbed FIFA ...

International Women's Day on Friday was marked by refugees and UNHCR staff around the world. In Islamabad, Pakistan, more than 500 Afghan refugee women gathered at the city's stadium on Thursday to ...