Malali Bashir

3 weeks ago | rferl.org | Malali Bashir |Abubakar Siddique |A Thread' |Rikard Jozwiak

More than 800,000 Afghans who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban’s takeover in 2021 live without papers in neighboring Pakistan. These undocumented Afghan refugees and migrants face a rapidly approaching deportation order issued by Islamabad requiring them to leave the country by March 31.

3 weeks ago | rferl.org | Malali Bashir |Abubakar Siddique |A Thread' |Rikard Jozwiak

An American woman has been released by the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan after being detained since February, the second freeing of a US citizen in the past eight days. In a video posted by US President Donald Trump on March 29, Faye Hall said she had been released by the Taliban after being detained in the war-torn country last month. "I've never been so proud to be an American citizen," Hall said in the video.

4 weeks ago | rferl.org | Malali Bashir |Abubakar Siddique |A Thread' |Rikard Jozwiak

The new school year started in Afghanistan on March 22, but for the fourth consecutive year, millions of teenage girls were barred from attending classes. Among them was Khalida, who was in the ninth grade when the Taliban seized power and banned education for girls above 12 years old. “The ban has had a big impact on my life,” Khalida, now 18, told RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi. “I used to spend all my time on my studies.