Zainab was working as a math teacher and going to medical school until Aug. 15, 2021 — the day that Kabul fell into the hands of the Taliban after the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan ...

Afghanistan's girls denied an education by the Taliban find learning in secret school 05:34. June 8 marks 1,000 days since the Taliban banned girls over the age of 12 from all schools in Afghanistan.

1,000 days have passed since Afghanistan's Taliban-run government banned girls from attending secondary schools, UNICEF noted Thursday. Fox News Media Fox Business ...

Amid widespread condemnation, the Taliban gave no indication of when these classrooms might reopen. Most girls and young women have been prevented from attending secondary school since the Taliban ...

Schools in Afghanistan are expected to open for the new semester Wednesday. But despite Taliban assurances that girls will be allowed back, students and teachers are unclear about what will happen.

Students and Taliban officials attend a March 23 ceremony for the reopening of schools at Amani high school, inside Kabul's Green Zone. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post) ...

A Taliban-run school in Badakhshan, seen in an image distributed by the Taliban. Two years ago, the Taliban paid a visit to 13-year-old Jamal’s* school in the northern province of Kunduz in ...

When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021, Aman and Zaynab encouraged their children to keep going to school. (For their safety, the couple asked that pseudonyms be used for this ...

Just hours after schools for girls were due to open, the Taliban ordered them to shut down again. Teenage girls in Afghanistan have now been denied their right to an education for 187 days.

The Taliban will allow girls around Afghanistan to return to class when high schools open next week, an education official said on Thursday, after months of uncertainty over whether the group ...

The Taliban has only allowed boys of all ages to return to school. Girls sixth grade and under have returned, but under strictly gender-segregated conditions.

The Taliban’s abusive educational policies in Afghanistan are harming boys as well as girls and women. Changes have led to increased fears about attending school, falling attendance, and a loss ...