The State Department on Wednesday condemned the Taliban’s newest order preventing women from studying medical courses, citing years of mistreatment. “This directive, the latest in a series of efforts ...

Senior employees at several institutions offering nursing and midwifery courses in Afghanistan on Tuesday said women would be barred from classes, following an edict by the Taliban supreme leader. The ...

This week the Taliban in Afghanistan closed one of the last remaining loopholes in their ban on education for older girls and women by forbidding them from attending institutions offering medical ...

UN experts issued a strong rebuke on Monday against a new Taliban policy banning female students from medical training in Afghanistan, which has been denounced for further eroding the rights of women ...

Spending for training projected to taper off from $11.6B next year to an average of $6.2B through 2015. Afghan protesters step on a U.S. flag during a demonstration against the United States, in Kabul ...

The UN mission to Afghanistan on Wednesday urged the Taliban government to reconsider a reported plan to ban women from attending medical training institutes, in the latest move to restrict women's ...

Doctors from the University of Nebraska Medical Center are escalating the fight against some of Afghanistan's deadliest assassins.Soon they will travel repeatedly to Kabul, as part of a tentative ...

Senior employees at several institutions offering nursing and midwifery courses in Afghanistan on Tuesday said women would be barred from classes, following an edict by the Taliban supreme leader.