City in Afghanistan reopens schools for teenage girls

Afghan high school girls play chess during a tournament in Herat province, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan (Fraidoon Pooya/AP)

Schools for girls from grades 11-18 have reopened in Afghanistan’s third largest city, Herat, residents said in what appeared to be a localised change in the Taliban’s bar on classes for girls of that age.

Since seizing power nearly three months ago, the Taliban have been under international pressure to allow all girls to go to school.