On Saturday, the parents of students expressed concern for their children's future and urged the authorities to allow their ...

Under the Taliban regime, Afghan women are facing growing hostility and restrictions, but they continue to resist.

A number of parents and students in Afghanistan are calling on the Taliban to reopen secondary schools for girls, which have ...

Monday is Nowruz, the Persian new year. The Taliban cancelled the public holiday in Afghanistan, saying it does not carry any ...

The Taliban may not be willing to crack down beyond a point, as that could provide the group’s arch-foe, the ISKP, with a ...

The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Thursday calling for independent recommendations on how ...

But the Taliban did take Kabul, and took over the rest of the country, in August that year, and almost immediately stopped all girls from attending high school. Aqila did several interviews with ...

She was forced to drop out after sixth grade. The Taliban, however, claim they are not against educating girls. “We have schools and high schools for girls in areas under our control ...

Several Taliban officials say the ban on women's education is temporary, but despite promises, they have failed to reopen secondary schools for girls, which have been shuttered now for over a year.

In total, around 500 Afghans arrived in Japan from last September onward following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan ... are of elementary and junior high school age. The ministry plans to ...

High school students take AP® exams and IB exams to earn college credit and demonstrate success at college-level coursework. U.S. News calculated a College Readiness Index based on AP/IB exam ...