Afghanistan

Some 59.1 million people were internally displaced in 2021, up from 55 million a year earlier, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said today. "The situation today is phenomenally worse...

There are many impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine that have been almost forensically analysed over the past month. From the laying bare of the European community's blatant...

More than 267,000 asylum-seekers received protection in the European Union last year and Syrian, Afghan, and Venezuelan nationals were the main beneficiaries, the bloc's statistical office announced on Wednesday....

Some 193 million people experienced "acute food insecurity" last year, a joint report by the EU and UN said on Wednesday, calling it a record figure and warning that...

Turkiye's state-run aid agency on Tuesday organised different entertainment activities to share joys of Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Fitr with orphans in Afghanistan, reports Anadolu Agency. The Turkish Cooperation and...

I read with some incredulity that a former three-star general in the Afghan National Army is planning to launch a new war against the ruling Taliban eight months after...

Turkish authorities have prevented the entry of around 600,000 illegal migrants since 2021, as it continues to step up the defence of its eastern and southern borders. According to...

Hundreds of refugees from Afghanistan who sought sanctuary in Germany have been evicted following the arrival of a large number of Ukrainians fleeing the on-going conflict in their country....

The main border crossing between Iran and Afghanistan was closed on Saturday following skirmishes between Iranian border guards and the Taliban forces, Anadolu Agency reported. According to official sources,...

Iran summoned the Afghan envoy to Tehran today and is stopping all consular services in Afghanistan, Iranian state TV reported, a day after protesters threw rocks at Iranian diplomatic...

The anniversary of the fateful day when US troops took the Iraqi capital Baghdad in 2003 will no doubt be marked this week with a deafening silence in Washington,...

Economic warfare is the name of America's new revenge mission against the people of Afghanistan

Human Rights Watch has called on the Ukrainian authorities to immediately release migrants and asylum seekers who are arbitrarily detained and at heightened risk due to military activity in...

Four Afghans are stranded in north-western Syria after Turkish authorities deported them from Turkey, as reports continue to emerge of Ankara forcibly deporting refugees to Syria. The stranded young...

An American and a U.S. resident have been freed from detention in Afghanistan, the State Department said on Friday, and one of the pair identified themselves as brothers who...

Muslim scholars called on Islamic countries to reach people in need, especially in war and conflict zones ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Anadolu News Agency reports....

Turkiye will provide an additional $5 million in aid to Afghanistan, the Turkish deputy Foreign Minister announced Thursday, saying Ankara will continue to stand with the Afghan people, Anadolu...

The Centre for Afghanistan, Middle East and Africa (CAMEA) at the Institute of Strategic Studies (ISSI) organized a webinar on "48th OIC CFM : An Assessment ", in collaboration...

Turkey has urged the Taliban government of Afghanistan to allow girls of all ages to pursue their education in the country, as the group's leadership yesterday imposed limits on...

China's Foreign Minister, on Thursday, arrived in Afghanistan on his maiden trip to the country after the exit of US-led foreign forces last year, Anadolu News Agency reports. As...

Julian Assange married his fiancee, Stella Moris, in a London prison on Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Assange, 50, remains in Belmarsh prison as he continues to fight extradition...

Scores of Afghans who escaped their country when the Taliban took over and were left in the UAE while their documents to travel to the US were processed have...

Senior officials from Afghanistan, Qatar and the US held a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF) that kicked off in Turkiye on Friday Anadolu...

Qatar has expressed its concern about the human rights situation in Afghanistan, and called for an end to discrimination against women so that they can play an active role...

Clashes erupted between Iranian soldiers and Taliban forces near the Afghanistan-Iran border. Iranian KhabarOnline news site said the clashes took place near the Kamal Khan Dam in southwestern Nimroz province of...

Last week Senegal abstained on a UN Security Council vote to end immediately Russia's military intervention in Ukraine. The decision came despite intense pressure from its former colonial power, France, who wanted the West...

Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair has admitted that he "may have been wrong" in his decision to invade Afghanistan and Iraq around two decades ago.

The spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Shabia Mantoo, has criticised the double standards applied by some Western countries against refugees. In a press statement on...

The announcement this week of the constitutional amendment enabling Belarus to host Russian nuclear weapons following a disputed referendum, could see the country having weapons of mass destruction on...

As students return to universities across Afghanistan this month, law major, Waheeda Bayat, will not be among them. The 24-year-old was looking forward to resuming her course at the private Gawharshad...

A third "charity train" carrying 994 tons of emergency relief aid to Afghanistan, under the coordination of Turkiye's government, departed from the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Friday, Anadolu News...

The Taliban-led interim government in Afghanistan, on Friday, called for restraint amid Russia's intervention in Ukraine, stressing that Kabul's foreign policy is that of "neutrality", Anadolu News Agency reports....