The order prohibits students, teachers and administrative staff from bringing smartphones onto school grounds.

As Israeli strikes kill top Iranian generals, take out air defenses and damage nuclear sites, many wonder if President Donald ...

But the greater cost has been moral: the abandonment of tens of thousands of Afghans who served alongside American forces.

KANDAHAR - The Taliban has enforced a strict ban on smartphones in all schools and religious institutions across Kandahar, ...

A ban on smartphones in schools issued by Taliban authorities in southern Afghanistan came into force, students and teachers ...

A former chess coach says a member of the Taliban vice squad told him: "Playing chess is forbidden. Buying a chess set is ...

South High Principal Jeffrey Creamer, himself a graduate of the school (Class of 1989), said that Bidaki had requested to speak during graduation and presented school staff with a speech he had ...

President Trump's travel ban potentially affects thousands of people, including one young girl from Afghanistan. We’re calling her Saira, blurring her face and altering her voice to protect her ...

Afghanistan's hard-line Taliban rulers have detained several Islamic clerics. Most of those incarcerated have publicly ...

"The Taliban have removed a lot of content from school textbooks," said Sardar Mohammad Rahimi, who served as Afghanistan's deputy minister of education until the Taliban took over in August 2021.

6.) Requiring schools to teach and assess students on “emirate studies,” which glorify Taliban leaders and their history by characterizing the Taliban takeover as a defeat of secular values ...

June 8 marks 1,000 days since the Taliban banned girls over the age of 12 from all schools in Afghanistan. The ban, issued just days after the group retook control over Afghanistan in 2021 ...