Uzbekistan will allow girls to wear headscarves in schools in a bid to ensure devout Muslim families send their daughters to school so that female attendance can increase, the Central Asian country’s Education Ministry said. The decision follows the amendment earlier this year to the country’s law on freedom of conscience, allowing women to wear the hijab in public places. Education...

America said it destroyed an explosive-laden vehicle with an air strike in Kabul on Sunday that killed a suicide car bomber suspected of preparing to attack the airport, U.S. officials said, as the United States nears the end of its massive airlift of tens of thousands of Afghans and military presence in the capital. A Taliban spokesman confirmed the incident, saying...