Afghan families living in Iran are crossing back into Afghanistan, in need of basic services and uncertain what the future ...

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Exhausted Afghans cross the border from Iran in a sandstorm, leaving behind a country in the grip of war to return to a homeland that is battered by conflict and humanitarian crisis.At the Islam Qala ...

President Trump’s decision to freeze refugee processing left thousands in limbo. For more than a year, 1,100 Afghan refugees who thought they were bound for the United States have been stranded on a ...

GENEVA — The return of millions of Afghans from neighboring Pakistan and Iran is pushing Afghanistan to the brink, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday, describing an unprecedented scale of returns.

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, continues to observe significant numbers of Afghans returning or being forced to return from neighbouring countries in extremely difficult circumstances. So far ...

Mehr Mumtaz receives funding from the Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Grant, and the Mershon Center for International Security's Graduate Research Grant. In January 2025, Seema received an email ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spectators look on during an informal cricket match played by Afghan residents at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, Sept. 29, 2021. Credit: ...

On Wednesday, Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) chaired a joint hearing focused on failures in screening Afghan refugees across federal agencies, including the State Department and ...

Senate Republicans this week lambasted a U.S. program to assist Afghans who served alongside troops, saying it did not properly vet tens of thousands of people who fled to the U.S. following the ...

Veterans say immigration crackdowns and politics around the shooting of two National Guardsmen in November has led to “wholesale punishment” against Afghan allies still in that country who once aided ...

Afghan refugees, like all refugees, are those who are “persecuted or who (have) a well-founded fear of persecution” in their home countries. But many Afghan refugees are subject to persecution for ...