Almost 80 girls, all students at elementary schools in Afghanistan's Sar-e-Pul province, were poisoned over the weekend in two separate incidents, according to a statement from the regional ...

Kabul — Afghanistan's schools reopened Tuesday for the new academic year, but no classes were held as students were unaware of the start and hundreds of thousands of teenage girls remain barred ...

Schools in Afghanistan saw the number of attacks triple in a year, according to UNICEF, stoking further concern of deteriorating security and access to education in the country. According to a ...

The appeal by UNICEF comes as a new school year began in Afghanistan without girls beyond sixth grade. The ban, said the agency, has deprived 400,000 more girls of their right to education ...

UNICEF is constructing 165 schools for girls and boys across Afghanistan, complete with solar panel systems, latrine blocks, handwashing stations and drilled water wells. Shukria, a 12-year-old ...

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (September 18, 2021) — In response to the announcement today that secondary schools in Afghanistan will be reopening, but only for boys, Save the Children said it was critical that ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A bomb exploded near a school in west Kabul on Saturday, killing at least 25 people, many them young students, Afghan government spokesmen said. Ambulances were rushing ...

including banning women from work and school. Now, in the northwestern region of Herat, officials from Afghanistan's vice ministry have been throwing musical instruments on a bonfire, after ...

A school to be built in southeastern Afghanistan will be named after an illiterate villager who walked his daughters 12 kilometres to the nearest schoolhouse to support their education ...