Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A big part of the country’s economic progress in this period can be attributed to women. While the overall average return on ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby shrine to sell to mourners visiting loved ones’ graves. She dreams of ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas ...

While the U.S. government’s recent attacks on higher education may look much different from the Taliban’s, there are some parallels and useful lessons. The Taliban’s return to Kabul in the summer of ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas ...

The UN children’s agency has urged Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government to immediately lift a ban on girls' education beyond primary school, saying that if the ban continues until 2030 more than 4 ...

PETALING JAYA: Meeting a delegation from Afghanistan’s education ministry was to show them how a modern Islamic nation’s education system should be, says the Education Ministry. It said a presentation ...