FILE PHOTO: Girls attend a class in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 25, 2021. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo
KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban will allow girls around Afghanistan to return to class when high schools open next week, an education official said on Thursday, after months of uncertainty over whether the group would allow full access to education for girls and women.
"All schools are going to open to all boys and girls," Aziz Ahmad Rayan, a spokesman for the Ministry of Education, told Reuters.
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