Snowboarders Musawer Khanzai and Nasima Zirak used to drag themselves up the thick snowy slopes of Afghanistan's Hindu Kush ...

Afghanistan's Taliban raided and shut down women's radio station Radio Begum on Tuesday, arresting two employees, according ...

Snowboarders Musawer Khanzai and Nasima Zirak used to drag themselves up the thick snowy slopes of Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains on foot before basking in the "freedom" of gliding back down.

But the return of the puritanical Taliban to power in Afghanistan put an end to their ... a reason for me to survive," Khanzai told AFP from France, where he has lived for the last two years.