He achieved world renown with his 1984 photograph Afghan Girl, a striking depiction of a young refugee with mesmerizing green eyes. The image first appeared on the June 1985 issue of National ...

10 x 6.5 in. (25.4 x 16.5 cm.) ...

You may not know the name, but you have probably seen some of Steve McCurry’s photographs, like his haunting portrait of Afghan girl Sharbat Gula, which graced the cover of National Geographic in 1985 ...

Houston ISD has completed three Afghan girls' transfer to a different school, after they were allegedly assaulted.

expenses – and the girls’ guitars – through donations. But all of those efforts now appear at risk. In recent years, Pakistan has stepped up its deportation of Afghan refugees – some of ...

Recent months have seen several reports of funding cuts and visa withdrawals leaving Afghan women at risk of deportation to ...

Amina, now 15, has always wanted to become ... the enforced wearing of the hijab. The Afghan Centre for Human Rights calls the ban on older girls attending school a "systematic and targeted ...

March marked the fourth year that Afghan girls were told their minds are still ... International attention is now aimed at papering over the problem. In the same month, in New York, the 69th ...