The BBC speaks to young women who are now working to support their families in one of few jobs they are allowed to do.

This rug found its way from northern Afghanistan to Okinawa as a result of a carpet trade created to serve an off-base US military market. Its importer, a Pakistani expatriate, told me the most ...

Many Afghan women have learned how to weave rugs in childhood from their mothers and grandmothers. 10:06 With his own private funds, Ashraf set up a rug factory in Afghanistan.

Sacramento has one of the largest communities of Afghan refugees in the U.S. with around 20,000 people, according to the Afghan-American Foundation.