The school year in Afghanistan has commenced, yet over one million girls have been barred by the Taliban from attending classes beyond the sixth grade.

Press TV team visited a university in the Afghan city of Herat and talked with some of the female students about the new rules.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has announced the names of the remaining members of Afghanistan’s interim cabinet, and elaborated on some of the movement's plans and policies.

Two rights advocacy groups report on the occasion of International Mother’s Day that Israel is holding 12 Palestinian mothers in jail who are subject to various kinds of torture and not allowed to meet with their relatives.

A bomb explosion targets a female doctor in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad, local officials say, shortly after three female media workers were killed in the city.

A female Palestinian recounts her torture-filled ordeal during some 15 months of imprisonment by the Israeli regime.

Gunmen have shot dead two female supreme court judges during an early morning ambush in Kabul.