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At least 800 dead, over 2,500 injured: All you need to know about Afghanistan earthquake

September 02, 2025 9:18 am

Rescue operations remain severely hampered by landslides, flooding and blocked roads in the mountainous Kunar region.

Trump pledged to save Afghans but UAE already sent some evacuees back, cable shows

July 21, 2025 8:28 am

The UAE, a close security partner of the United States, agreed in 2021 to temporarily house several thousand Afghans evacuated from Kabul as the Taliban ousted the US-backed government

Why over 500,000 Afghans were forced out of Iran in just 16 days and what's next?

July 11, 2025 7:15 pm

In just over two weeks since Iran’s conflict with Israel came to an uneasy halt, more than half a million Afghans have crossed into Afghanistan from Iran, a staggering human tide that the UN has called one of the largest forced movements of people in recent years.

Pakistan steps up arrests of Afghans without papers. Kabul says it's a move to expel all refugees

February 19, 2025 8:22 pm

More than 800,000 Afghans have returned home or have been expelled by force from Pakistan since 2023, according to the International Organization for Migration, a UN agency that tracks migrations.

Afghanistan to Sudan: For refugees outside UNHCR office, endless wait for assistance

October 14, 2024 6:39 am

According to the UNHCR website, no refugee is guaranteed resettlement or cash assistance. It says it is for the organisation to decide which are the most vulnerable groups in need of such services. But this makes little difference for the protesting refugees outside.

Thousands of refugees in Indonesia have spent years awaiting resettlement. Their future is unclear

June 20, 2024 2:26 pm

Indonesia, despite having a long history of accepting refugees, is not a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention of 1951 and its 1967 Protocol, and the government does not allow refugees and asylum-seekers to work.

'We feel their pain': Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi dedicates the win to Afghan refugees

November 04, 2023 7:19 am

Pakistan is home to over four million Afghan migrants and refugees, and about 1.7 million undocumented Afghans refugees have been ordered to leave the country by Wednesday.

Afghan Hindu family in Germany await visa to immerse son’s ashes in Ganga

December 25, 2022 2:51 pm

Not getting visa to India ‘after Taliban return to Kabul’, say hundreds of Afghan Hindus, Sikhs living in Germany; being cleared after verification: MHA officials

Afghans adrift on US 'lily pad' in Kosovo

August 29, 2022 12:55 pm

Afghans whom the US had said would be temporarily housed in Kosovo are still there a year later — with no way out.

A Port in the Storm

June 20, 2017 12:04 am

An exhibition in Delhi frames faces from Somalia, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Sri Lanka to mark World Refugee Day

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