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New Decision Restricts Training Abroad for Afghan Scholars Amid Further Limits on Women's Education
Women taking a test at the Institute of Health Sciences, Ghazni, Afghanistan. Photo Credit: NBC News Taliban authorities have started...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
Dec 18, 20242 min read


The Taliban's Stranglehold on Women's Right to Education Tightens
Afghan female students take entrance exams at Kabul University in Kabul, before the ban on university and primary schools was enforced...
Dolunay Bulut
Sep 14, 20232 min read


Afghan Professor and Women’s Right Activist Arrested by the Taliban
Professor Ismail Mashal with his cart of free books. Photo credit: BBC Since the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the...
Maryam Mushtaq
Feb 25, 20232 min read


Blast Kills 53 at Education Center in West Kabul
On September 30th, 2022, a suicide blast at an education center in the Dasht-e-Barchi area of western Kabul killed 53 and wounded more...
Maryam Mushtaq
Oct 31, 20222 min read


Taliban takeover American University of Afghanistan (AUAF)
In August 2021, when the US withdrew its forces from Afghanistan and the country was taken over by the Taliban, the American University...
Maryam Mushtaq
Sep 26, 20222 min read

Taliban Attacks Afghan Women Asking for Freedom and Equality
Women gathered in Kabul, Afghanistan, demanding the right to work, study, and participate in politics Photo credit: Nava Jamshidi/Getty...
Dolunay Bulut
Aug 19, 20222 min read

Resources available for Afghan students, scholars, and others
Endangered Scholars Worldwide (ESW) stands by the students and scholars of Afghanistan whose academic and personal lives have been at...
Kennedy McCutchen
May 9, 20222 min read


Academics Call for Support of Afghan Alumni
Japanese academics have launched a support network to pressure their government to expand provisional measures for their Afghan...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 7, 20211 min read


‘I Don’t Want to Die.’ Afghan Researchers Fear for their safety—and the future of science
BY: RICHARD STONE* Twice the Taliban tried to kill Khyber Mashal**. Its first attempt was in 2009, when the Afghan scientist was working...
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
Aug 31, 20215 min read


Gunmen Ambush University Bus in Afghanistan Killing at Least Two, Injuring Six
On Tuesday, March 16, 2021, Gunmen ambushed a bus transporting university students, staff, and professors in Baghlan province, killing...
Ebby Abramson
Mar 17, 20212 min read


Gunmen Kill more than a Dozen Students in Attack on Afghanistan Kabul University
Islamic State-affiliated gunmen stormed Afghanistan’s largest university on Monday, killing more than a dozen students and forcing...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 2, 20202 min read


Western Professors Freed in Prisoner Swap with Taliban
The Taliban released an American and an Australian hostage on Tuesday after the Afghan government freed three imprisoned Taliban...
Ebby Abramson
Nov 19, 20191 min read

Naqib Khpulwak
In Brief Naqib Khpulwak, an assistant law professor at the American University in Kabul, Afghanistan, was among the 16 students and...
Ebby Abramson
Apr 25, 20191 min read
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