Australian Taekwondo's chief executive said several female taekwondo athletes have been evacuated from Afghanistan after the Taliban came into power. (Scott Heavey/Getty Images) ...

Parisa (all names in this story have been changed) was a student in Grade 12 last year and a member of the taekwondo team in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. Then the Taliban returned. Under their ...

Since fleeing Afghanistan, Khudadadi has been training at INSEP, France's national institute of sport, in Paris with her French coach Haby Niare, a former taekwondo world champion.

At the end of July, Skopje hosted the biggest sporting event in North Macedonia — the European Youth Olympic Festival. Among ...

Since fleeing Afghanistan, Khudadadi has been training at INSEP, France’s national institute of sport, in Paris with her French coach Haby Niare, a former taekwondo world champion.

But Nikpai, who is 21, has claimed a spot among his sport’s elite. Afghanistan will get another chance at a medal in taekwondo. Nesar Ahmad Bahave is competing in a heavier weight class.

Afghanistan's only Olympic medallist, taekwondo star and national hero Rohullah Nikpa, announced Tuesday that he would boycott international competition unless reforms root out discrimination and ...

The country has another chance at a medal in taekwondo. Nesar Ahmad Bahave, the silver medallist at the 2007 world taekwondo championships in Beijing, is competing in a heavier weight class.

Afghan taekwondo star Marzieh Hamidi told AFP the death threats she has received, forcing her to live under French police protection, show how effective her stinging criticism of the Taliban has been.

Hassan won the match 4:3. Antony Dickson / AFP GUANGZHOU - Nesar Ahmad Bahawi brought war-torn Afghanistan its first medal of the 2010 Asian Games by grabbing a silver in taekwondo on Thursday.

But this isn't the war that has torn Afghanistan for the past three decades. Kabul's new warriors are taekwondo fighters. In this ancient martial art of kicking and punching, one of the newest stars ...

Nikpai's performances have had a profound impact on the sport of taekwondo in Afghanistan. The country has risen to an all-time high of seventh in the world rankings and achieved this off the back of ...