An Afghan teacher who braved the threat of the Taliban to bring education to girls has won a global award. Sakena Yacoobi, who set up 80 secret schools for 3,000 girls in the country, was recognized for her outstanding work at the World Citizen Awards in Istan...

See here for Jirga; behind the scenes – a film by Benjamin Gilmour filmed in Afghanistan and the result of a collaboration with locals, is in cinemas now.

“According to article 64, section 13 of the constitution, Farkhunda Zahra Naderi was appointed as the president’s senior advisor on UN affairs,” a presidential decree stated. Political analysts meanwhile said the president appointed Naderi to show the UN...

Sally Morrison is a former molecular geneticist at the University of Melbourne and now a writer of fiction and biography. Earlier this year she went to Afghanistan with Dr Nouria Salehi, who trains science teachers in that country. Sally Morrison talks about t...

21 Aug 2017 James Mackenzie KABUL (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is eyeing Afghanistan’s mineral wealth to help pay for a 16-year war and reconstruction efforts that have already cost $117 billion. Investors who have studied the country, o...

Our carpentry program for boys has been going for ten years now with 69 graduates who have gone from having almost no education to having skills in a much-needed trade in Kabul. All either have jobs or have started up their own business in Kabul, allowing them...