Religious schools increasingly offer a range of subjects as the mainstream education ban enters its fourth year.

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 ...

"Having the chance to go back to school, as well as learning midwifery and first aid, made her feel much better about her future," he adds. Afghanistan remains the only country where women and ...

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) 32,933 people played the daily ...

Afghanistan’s new rulers have said they will be more accommodating than during their first stint in power ... with male professors. One music school in Afghanistan fears for its students ...