Many were detained for years after fleeing Afghanistan when the United States pulled out and the Taliban took power.

In the immediate aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War, as world attention fixated on the harrowing human toll of ...

They fled Afghanistan when the United States pulled out and the Taliban took power in 2021. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Trump said he will ’try to save’ Afghans stuck in the UAE ’starting from now’, despite the US President having suspended ...

A recent report from Mercy Corps delivers the brutal verdict – groundwater levels across Kabul are falling so fast they might ...

Readers weigh in on developments in Washington, including spending cuts and deportations, in letters published July 14-20, 2025.

Zarghuna Safai*, a 20-year-old resident of Kabul, was a second-semester student at a local medical institute when the Taliban barred women and girls from studying in medical training centres across ...

AN ELDERLY Brit couple held hostage and beaten by the Taliban could die if not rescued soon, the UN has warned. Peter ...

A long-term Afghan resident of Japan has set up a free language school to help her more newly arrived countrywomen stay ...

According to first-hand accounts of some in the group, UAE officials came without warning to deliver the news, sowing panic among the group of thirty-two Afghan men, women and children who were ...

ISLAMABAD: Up to 11.6 million refugees and others forced to flee risk losing access to direct humanitarian assistance from the UN Refugee Agency following major cuts to humanitarian budgets, according ...