But all that was taken away when the Taliban swept into power in 2021. They banned girls over the age of 12 from getting an ...

On September 15, 2025, the Taliban de facto authorities announced an internet ban across large areas of northern Afghanistan.

As a self-described astrobiofuturist – who earned a master's degree in biomimicry at Arizona State University – Almon aims to ...

Afghans have taken to the streets to rejoice in the restoration of internet and telecom services after the Taliban government ...

When the Taliban recently cut off the Internet and phone networks across Afghanistan, millions of women and girls were silenced. For those with ...

A new push to cut nationwide access to the digital world is taking Afghanistan back to the isolationist extremes of decades past ...

Stride offered New Mexico students an option for online learning, but now Gallup-McKinley County Schools has accused the ...

Have you ever experienced the pain of stepping on scattered LEGO blocks in the middle of the night? In my case, the pain (or expletives) that followed were often muffled by the desire to ensure that ...

A telecommunications blackout and restrictions on social media have further isolated Afghans who rely on the internet as a ...

The internet, now in widespread blackout, has been a lifeline for Afghan women trying to access education — and for Taliban ...

Corrected: This story initially misstated which federal department administers the Emergency Connectivity Fund. It is the Federal Communications Commission. From a village in Alaska and a large ...

MANILA, Philippines — A bill seeking to include internet and social media education in elementary and high school curricula ...