Split by the Taliban’s restrictions on women’s education in Afghanistan, the sisters hoped to reunite in the US. But new ...

General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the Security Council meeting on the situation in Afghanistan on 23 ...

Teachers and students speak in May 2025 against the potential closure of Sacramento-area Highlands Community Charter Schools, which teach English to refugees including many from Afghanistan. In ...

People from Afghanistan make up nearly a majority of Highlands Community Charter School’s approximate 12,000 students, according to school data. Sacramento County is home to the largest population of ...

The Trump administration's foreign policy and research funding cuts could pose a problem for universities in and around ...

While the U.S. government’s recent attacks on higher education may look much different from the Taliban’s, there are some parallels and useful lessons.

With the Taliban’s return to power in the summer of 2021, underground schools have once again become one of the most common ways for girls to continue their education beyond the sixth grade. In ...

Two Americans detained in Afghanistan were released in a prisoner exchange with ... the former captain in the U.S. Marines who was using his summer break from law school at Georgetown University ...

Nearly 300 young musicians, their teachers and staff from their music school fled Afghanistan in fear for their lives as the Taliban took power. NPR caught up with them during their U.S. tour, ...

Al Qaeda is also operating five madrasas, or religious schools, in Laghman, Kunar, Nangarhar, Nuristan and Parwan provinces. Al Qaeda and the Iran connection In Herat, Farah and Helmand provinces, Al ...

Inspired, in part, by a 1996 Christiane Amanpour documentary titled “Battle for Afghanistan,” Hakim decided to create secret schools for a new generation of Afghan girls.