KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby ...

The school year in Afghanistan began without girls, as the Taliban prohibited them from attending classes beyond the sixth grade. More than 1 million girls are affected by the ban, according to ...

As Afghanistan’s school year starts, more than 1 million girls still barred from education by Taliban A girl reads a book in her classroom in Kabul in 2023.

In Afghanistan, these schools are controlled by the Taliban. Their aim is to promote a strict interpretation of Islam and ensure theirs is the view of Islam passed to the next generation.

One of those visitors is Australian Suzanne Sandral. She originally wanted to see Afghanistan in the 1960s but the pressures ...

MUHMUD RAQI, Afghanistan - The Taliban and their allies among Islamic fundamentalists were accused by Afghan authorities of launching an apparent poison gas attack Tuesday that caused dozens of ...

FILE - A girl reads a book in her classroom on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Saturday, March 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File) KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Schools in ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, March 23 -- The Hotaki School is a scarred, gloomy monument to Afghanistan's years of warfare and religious extremism. Its classrooms, damaged by militia rockets and then ...

Afghanistan's Taliban government banned girls from secondary school and university three years ago – the only country in the ...

FILE - Afghan school girls attend their classroom on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Saturday, March 25, 2023. Afghanistan's schools open Wednesday for the new educational year ...

The school year in Afghanistan started Wednesday but without girls whom the Taliban barred from attending classes beyond the sixth grade, making it the only country with restrictions on female ...