Members of an all-girl Afghan robotics team assemble components for a circuit board they are building, at the laboratory of Qatar’s Texas A&M university in the ...

HERAT (Reuters) - In the eastern Afghan city of Herat, 18-year-old high school student Somaya Faruqi adjusts a suction cap as she puts the finishing touches before unveiling a low-cost, lightweight ...

Huddled around a small table in the halls of a cavernous Washington concert hall, a group of Afghan teenage girls tweak gears and sprockets on their radio-controlled robot, hoping to best the ...

The first international robotics competition for high schoolers made headlines before it even started — and after the event was over as well. First there was the story of the all-girl Afghanistan team ...

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.

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 ...