Kabul residents said that their religiosity has increased noticeably of late with more people visiting the mosque and urging women to wear the veil.

An Afghan woman who was lynched to death by a mob that falsely accused her of burning a Quran was finally given a burial by women’s rights activists.

Atheists in Muslim countries speak out as they find themselves concealing their lack of faith during Ramadan for the sake of their own safety.

An Afghan citizen has been granted religious asylum in the United Kingdom because he identifies himself as an atheist.

Sushmita Banerjee, whose vivid memoir of her life and escape from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan was adapted into a Bollywood film, had returned to Afghanistan to live with her husband and opened a medical clinic for Afghan women was shot and killed outside her home last week.