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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Thursday became the first country to formally recognize the Taliban’s government in Afghanistan since it seized power in 2021, after Moscow r emoved the group from its ...

Afghanistan’s isolation on the international stage, largely because of the Taliban’s restrictions on women and girls, has left much of its 41 million people mired in poverty. As it struggles to ...

There were 71,000 deportations in the first half of June alone, according to U.N. estimates. These Afghan refugees are returning to a country in the throes of a humanitarian crisis.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is witnessing a sharp increase in the number of Afghans returning in adverse circumstances from Iran, warning that returns on a massive scale have the potential to ...

The sad truth behind 12-year-old ‘Afghan girl’ Sharbat Gulla that will change the way you look at her iconic National Geographic photo forever.

The U.S. is offering a $5 million reward for information that helps find Mahmood Habibi, an Afghan-American national it says was abducted in Kabul in 2022.

As the Iran-Israel conflict intensified, thousands of undocumented Afghan refugees found themselves trapped in a country that neither welcomes nor protects them, facing not only the threat of ...

“Afghanistan is facing a fast-intensifying returnee crisis as Afghan refugees from Iran and Pakistan flood back into a country already in humanitarian freefall. Afghans returning from Iran – up to ...

Weyerhaeuser’s $500 million plant in Arkansas will turn small trees, once bound for paper mills, into engineered lumber.

The light of unity embraced by the pomegranate seeds on the road of shared prosperity will eventually illuminate the ancient Silk Road and benefit the eight neighboring countries – because the ...