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

A new academic year has started in Afghanistan, but girls have been barred from going to school beyond the sixth grade.

With the start of the new academic year, it will be the fourth year in a row that girls’ schools have been kept closed for ...

KABUL, March 20 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Education of Afghanistan's interim government on Thursday started the new academic year as millions of Afghan students headed to schools without girls ...

The new school year began on Saturday in Afghanistan ... I meet Amina in the dimly-lit basement of Al-Hadith madrassa in Kabul, a newly established private religious educational centre for around ...

KABUL, March 15 (Xinhua) -- The reconstruction of 32 school buildings will begin in various parts of eastern Afghanistan's Paktia province, a local media outlet TOLOnews reported Saturday.

The appeal by UNICEF comes as a new school year began in Afghanistan without girls beyond sixth grade. The ban, said the ...

After four years of girls being forbidden education in Afghanistan, several women activists have launched a campaign titled ...