This 16-year-old, formerly a student at Rabia Balkhi High School in Kabul, was unable to continue her education after the Taliban prohibited Afghanistan's girls from attending secondary school.

September 17 marks three years since the Taliban banned secondary education for girls in Afghanistan, shortly after their return to power in August 2021. While the issue of Afghan girls ...

At least 1.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural agency, said on August 15 ...

Experts and social activists are concerned over the decline of modern education in Afghanistan as the country marks the third year of the Taliban’s ban on adolescent girls’ education.

Girls' education in Afghanistan faces a critical crisis. With nearly 4 million children out of school, UNICEF warns of a dark ...

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 ...

One of the few officials in Afghanistan’s Taliban government to support reversing the ban on girls’ education appears to have ...

We must acknowledge that the Taliban’s extremism, corruption, and brutality pose a global security threat with far-reaching ...

The Associated Press The top Taliban leader on Saturday slammed President Donald Trump’s travel ban on Afghans, calling the ...

Muzaffar Ali, an Afghan-Australian human rights activist, is cycling 4,000 kilometers to support education for refugee ...

Since retaking power, the Taliban has banned certain music, barred women from parks, and now outlawed chess. Authoritarians ...