Afghanistan has long had one of the poorest education records in the world, with a low rate of school attendance and a high percentage of illiteracy. Between 1996 and 2001, under the Islamic group ...

KABUL, April 3 (Xinhua) -- The reconstruction of 31 school buildings has been completed in east Afghanistan's Laghman province, the state-owned Bakhtar news agency reported Thursday. The buildings ...

The new school year began on Saturday in Afghanistan but for the fourth consecutive year, girls over 12 were barred from attending classes. "All my dreams were shattered," she says, her voice ...

The appeal by UNICEF comes as a new school year began in Afghanistan without girls beyond sixth grade. The ban, said the agency, has deprived 400,000 more girls of their right to education ...

UNICEF is constructing 165 schools for girls and boys across Afghanistan, complete with solar panel systems, latrine blocks, handwashing stations and drilled water wells. Shukria, a 12-year-old ...

A new academic year has started in Afghanistan, but girls have been barred from going to school beyond the sixth grade. On Thursday, members of the Taliban interim government and other officials ...

The U.N. children’s agency on Saturday urged Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to immediately lift a lingering ban on girls' education to save the future of millions who have been deprived of their ...

FILE - Afghan school girls attend their classroom on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Saturday, March 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File) 32,420 people played the daily ...

The appeal by UNICEF comes as a new school year began in Afghanistan without girls beyond sixth grade. The ban, said the agency, has deprived 400,000 more girls of their right to education ...