Grooming standards changed this month for the Army, giving female soldiers more options. Many previously had to wear their hair in tight buns, leading to possible hair loss.

Roya Rahmani is Afghanistan's first woman ambassador to the U.S. "What makes me hopeful about women's rights in Afghanistan is that women themselves, they have their own voice," she tells NPR.

Nicholas Daniloff was seized and charged with spying in apparent retaliation for the U.S. arrest of a Russian agent. Daniloff discusses the similarities with the detention of U.S. citizen Paul Whelan.