Jamila Afghani, one of Afghanistan’s top women’s-rights activists, credits her success to having had polio as a child. Born in 1976 with a crooked leg that her family blamed on evil spirits, she was written off as a langak,

Russia has invited Afghanistan's Taliban to its biggest annual economic forum as Moscow moves to remove a ban on the Islamist movement, a senior Russian diplomat was quoted as saying on Monday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today that the Taliban is the “real power” in Afghanistan and the group’s possible removal from Moscow’s