Afghan refugees, like all refugees, are those who are “persecuted or who (have) a well-founded fear of persecution” in their ...

Since the Taliban's return in August 2021, Afghan women's basic freedoms have been systematically curtailed, transforming ...

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND (CNN) — From the confines of his small, bleak room in Manchester, northern England, Abdul Bari spends much of his day gazing out the window worrying about his future. At night, ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, July 12 (UNHCR) - A steady flow of Afghan refugees has started leaving Kyrgyzstan for a new life in Canada under a landmark group resettlement plan that is expected to largely end ...

STUTTGART, Germany (Reuters) - An Afghan national with suspected Islamist motives was sentenced to life in prison by a German court on Tuesday for stabbing a police officer to death and injuring five ...

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, Nov 4 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency and the Canadian government have teamed up in programmes that could resettle nearly 2,000 Afghans who had been stranded in Central Asia for ...

It has been over three and a half years since Afghan women from all walks of life first took to the streets chanting “Bread, Work, Freedom,” a fierce assertion of their right to work and to be free ...

Obaidullah Baraty sits on a colorful toshak with his legs crossed in the almost empty living room of his Beaverton apartment as he shows pictures on his phone of his wife and baby boy. The couple are ...

As the American war in Afghanistan ended four years ago, thousands of Afghans who had worked with the United States, and believed in the American-led war against the Taliban, were left behind. Many of ...

Barely half an hour had passed since the flight landed at O’Hare International Airport, and the Army combat veteran's palms were already sweating. Spencer Sullivan, 38, situated himself at the front ...

Afghanistan's cricket superstar Rashid Khan has opened up about the extraordinary security measures he must take while travelling in his home country, revealing that he uses a bulletproof car for ...