Afghanistan bans girls from attending school beyond the primary level. Education advocate Somaya Faruqi is working to protect ...

Afghanistan's only girls' boarding school has evacuated dozens of students and staff to Rwanda, the president of the privately-run institution said Tuesday. The move came days after the Taliban ousted ...

A 15-year-old girl reads a magazine in Afghanistan. Higher education for girls is forbidden under the ruling Islamist Taliban. A new school year has begun in Afghanistan with more than 2.2 million ...

Khawar was preparing to start medical school in Afghanistan when Taliban fighters swept into the capital Kabul, seizing power and imposing the world’s only ban on educating girls over 12. Khawar had ...

Afghan Appeal, a London -based charity, has funded much of the school’s reconstruction, which has cost nearly $190,000 so far. Fourteen of a planned 24 classrooms have been built and are filled with ...

Afghan school girls perform during a ceremony, marking the Education Day in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday. Militant attacks on Afghan schools last year killed 85 students and teachers and destroyed 187 ...

Today, for millions of young women and girls in Afghanistan, education is not just a right — it is an act of defiance. Since the Taliban regained control in 2021, access to learning has been brutally ...

Family's children have adapted to going to school for the first time and learning English. They have dreams of being a heart ...

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has opened a newly constructed school building in northern Afghanistan ...

PHOENIX — ASU’s Thunderbird School of Global Management has supported tens of thousands of Afghan women’s economic empowerment since 2005 through a program called Project Artemis. With the recent ...