Four school children are dead in Afghanistan after an unexploded ordnance detonated after being brought into a classroom by children who were playing with it.

Afghan children face severe malnutrition as humanitarian crisis grows 05:01. Unexploded ordnance detonated Saturday in southern Afghanistan killing four children and injuring three others after ...

The school year in Afghanistan began without girls, as the Taliban prohibited them from attending classes beyond the sixth grade. More than 1 million girls are affected by the ban, according to ...

Afghan school boys attend their classroom on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Saturday, March 25, 2023. Like Hakim, many human rights, women rights and education rights activists ...

Speaking to the IRC in July, seven Afghan girls spoke of their fears for the future and the importance of schooling in order to pursue their ambitions of helping rebuild Afghanistan, which is in the ...

Banned from school, adolescent girls in Kabul, Afghanistan share their grief and determination to get an education. ... 2021, more than 4.2 million children in Afghanistan were out of school.

In Afghanistan, these schools are controlled by the Taliban. Their aim is to promote a strict interpretation of Islam and ...

The humanitarian emergency was central to discussions this week in Brussels at the EU Senior Officials Meeting on Afghanistan ...

At a malnutrition treatment centre in Afghanistan's capital, the cries of children have given way to a heavy silence, as patients are turned away and medical staff laid off due to US aid cuts.

KABUL, Afghanistan — In a fantastical little school in Kabul, girls and boys leave behind their impoverished, war-torn world and enter a utopia where they laugh and sing, and learn how to juggle ...