They should pressure the Taliban to allow all schools to operate ... they should remember Afghanistan’s children. As a girls’ school principal told me in Kandahar: “Education is the backbone ...

They closed the school in 2007, breaking all the windows and furniture ... the most important battle of the war in Afghanistan — the battle for Kandahar — is contested this summer, made ...

"We all went home crying," she ... students learned that their classes in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar Province had been terminated. "Our schools were closed first by the coronavirus [pandemic ...

Sixteen years after the US-led military intervention in Afghanistan ... girls do not attend school. “The Afghan government and donors made bold promises in 2001 to get all girls into education ...

I know, that in this place and time the Pir Mohammad School is the nexus of everything that is in Senjaray, and for that matter, the center of all that is happening in Afghanistan. We must be ...

(CNN) – Explosives stuffed inside a pillow went off outside a southern Afghanistan ... in a shop placed near a school wall — went off as they were playing in Kandahar, said Ahmad Zia Durrani ...

Razia was expelled from her school in the ... has been unpopular in Kandahar, part of the conservative Pashtun heartland where the Taliban first emerged in the 1990s. “All Afghans support ...

An Afghan citizen has turned his home into a school in a southern province of Afghanistan after all village schools ... about 40 kilometers (24 miles) from the Kandahar city, the capital of ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan—Taliban government ministers thought the matter of girls’ education was settled. Schools for girls over sixth grade were set to reopen this past March, after months.