New school year commences in Ghazni, Afghanistan

Afghan students attend a class at a local school in Ghazni city, eastern Afghanistan, March 24, 2021. The new school year in Afghanistan commenced Tuesday with President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ringing the school bell at a ceremony held at a school in the capital Kabul. A total of 10 million children and teenagers including some 4 million girls, according to officials, are going to school this March in the militancy-battered country. (Str/Xinhua)