Afghanistan bans girls from attending school beyond the primary level. Education advocate Somaya Faruqi is working to protect ...

When the Taliban fell from power in Afghanistan in 2001, women were once again allowed to go to school after being banned since 1996. I, along with World Bank education expert Raja Bentaouet Kattan ...

The paper presents the history of religious and secular education in Afghanistan, highlighting the influence of armed ...

At the very end of December 2022, tens of thousands of women were banned from universities in Afghanistan by the Taliban. Already the Taliban had banned most high school girls from schools since ...

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has opened a newly constructed school building in northern Afghanistan ...

The school year in Afghanistan began without girls, as the Taliban prohibited them from attending classes beyond the sixth grade. More than 1 million girls are affected by the ban, according to the ...

BAMIAN, Afghanistan — When Zahra Wafa thinks about what it took to put her daughters through school, her face hardens. She remembers the days she and her husband ate only bread to afford their ...

Education has been touted as an “island of success” in the sea of hubris and corruption that was our misadventure in Afghanistan. Progress in education had been viewed as a sign of hope and cited as a ...

In this photo posted to his Twitter account on March 5, 2023, Matiullah Wesa is shown during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. Credit: Twitter/Matiullah Wesa Last month’s arbitrary arrest and ...

To the outside world, women’s right to an education is an unalienable right. For girls and women in Afghanistan, it is an open-and-shut case of discrimination. Zahra Azimi, who completed her studies ...

Afghan refugees pass by an outdoor girls’ classroom in Torkham, Afghanistan, Nov. 18, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi In the rugged terrain of Afghanistan, amid a backdrop of perpetual struggle ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The school year in Afghanistan started Wednesday but without girls whom the Taliban barred from attending classes beyond the sixth grade, making it the only country with restrictions ...