Brishkay Ahmed’s In the Room, debuting at the Vancouver International Film Festival, looks at the lives of five prominent Afghan emigrant women ...

Fahim Hashimy is an Afghan filmmaker and founder of the Ghan International Film Festival Australia. He spoke to Markela ...

The October chill was just setting in and as the evening turned to night, the audience eagerly waited to view celebrated ...

Some four years after players from the Afghanistan women’s national team fled their homeland amid the Taliban’s takeover, a ...

“My team-mates are my sisters. Our dream is to play together again, standing side by side.” In June 2021, Fatima Foladi was a rising football star in Afghanistan when she scored against Tajikistan in ...

"Don't do anything until I get back!" Mel Jones was in the middle of a television commentary, but she was also in the middle of masterminding an escape from the Taliban. The former Australia cricketer ...

Luke Basso has been producing documentary short films on veterans and military history since he was in high school. He recently returned from Afghanistan and tells WAMC North Country Bureau Chief Pat ...

On July 31, 2025, a coalition of civil society organizations announced the launch of the People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan, an initiative to address the impunity for the dire situation of ...

ZURICH (AP) — The Afghanistan national women's soccer team of refugee players has its first official games next month at a four-team tournament in Dubai, FIFA said Wednesday. The FIFA-supported team — ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Afghan women cricketers will finally get high-level support in a bid to rejoin international competition after the sport’s world governing body created a taskforce to ...