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 ...

In late April, Albina Roman and her daughter landed at Los Angeles International Airport and saw the rest of their family for the first time in nearly three years.

The school, called Code to Inspire, is the country’s first female-only coding school.The first class of 50 students, age 14 to 25, graduated recently. The 29-year-old founder, Fereshteh Forough ...

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (March 8, 2022) — Officials from Afghanistan's Ministry of Education said on Sunday that girls will be returning to secondary schools later this month.Since September, secondary ...

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 ...

The directive by provincial Education Department in Kandahar applies to students, teachers and administrative staff ...

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 ...

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.

Musical instruments have been thrown on a bonfire in Afghanistan, ... including banning women from work and school. ... Uzair-ur-Rahman Mohajer, ...

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, ...