KABUL -- Hundreds of students returned Tuesday (March 28) to the American University in Kabul seven months after militants stormed the campus.
Security has been increased at the campus in the Afghan capital after the attack last August claimed 16 lives.
"I don't think anything un-Islamic or against any group is taught here," said Rahmatullah, a returning student who was one of those wounded in the attack.
"It is just a centre to promote knowledge, and that is going to succeed," he said.
"All our classes will resume today. We have worked on boosting the security of the university for the past seven months," Zubaida Akbar, the university's director of communication, told AFP.
President Ashraf Ghani has given special permission for a private foreign security company to fortify the campus with more concrete blast walls and bulletproof gates.
About two weeks before the attack, two foreign professors of the university were kidnapped.
Their whereabouts are still unknown. No group has claimed responsibility for the abductions.
