The young Afghan hates his new school ... having discovered too late that the school was effectively an insurgent recruiting center. Asking to be called Wahid Khan, the boy fondly recalls the ...

It's one of the most touted "positive statistics" about Afghanistan: Today, there are 10 million Afghans enrolled in school ... education adviser for the Aga Khan Foundation in Afghanistan.

Afghan girls will be allowed to take their high school graduation exams this week, an official and documents from the Taliban government indicated Tuesday — even though they have been banned ...

Schools in Afghanistan reopened Wednesday for the new academic year, but the fundamentalist Taliban government prohibited teenage girls from joining secondary-level classes for a third year in a row.

KABUL — More than 80 Afghan students and teachers ... it has provided no timeline for the reopening of schools and universities. Haq Nawaz Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan, contributed to this ...

Schools in Afghanistan opened for the new academic year, the education ministry said, with girls banned from joining secondary-level classes for the third year in a row. Taliban authorities barred ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Afghan high school girls will be allowed to take their graduation exams this week, an official and documents from the Taliban government indicated Tuesday — even though ...