Their team shirts didn't say "Afghanistan" and their name badges were handwritten, not typed, suggesting the last-minute nature of their entry into the United States. But the Afghan girls competing ...

Four years after the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, a group of young women from the former Afghan robotics team is fighting back against oppressive restrictions by building robots in secret ...

In the sweltering heat of Kabul, a group of young women, who have been barred from higher education for the past three years, gather in one of their homes to work on a new project. Calling themselves ...

Girls from the Afghan robotics team fled the country last week. And they had to leave behind their families, who have remained in peril. An ambitious operation to save them began Tuesday morning with ...

The team was the first to be introduced at an opening ceremony Sunday for the three-day high school competition. They will compete against entrants from more than 150 countries in the FIRST Global ...

A film showing Sunday at the Cameo Cinema follows the true story of an Afghan all-girls robotics team that overcame obstacles to learn coding and robotics, ultimately traveling the world to compete in ...

The father of a member of the Afghan all-girls robotics team that made headlines last month after overcoming US visa obstacles died this week in an ISIS bombing in Herat, Afghanistan.