Afghanistan

Pushing her son on a swing at a playground on a sunny winter's day in Madrid, former Afghan prosecutor, Obaida Sharar, expresses relief that she found asylum in Spain...

A total of 139 Afghan migrants, who entered Turkiye illegally, were deported on Saturday, said the head of Turkiye's Migration Management Directorate, reports Anadolu Agency. As part of the...

Lacking food and fuel, Afghan people are in dire need of humanitarian assistance amid freezing weather that has caused dozens of deaths.

The head of the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema (Islamic scholars), Abdul-Razzaq Qassoum, has criticised those who only condemn manifestations of Islamophobia and attacks on religious sanctities, such as...

The seventh "Kindness Train" that departed from Ankara with the coordination of the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) reached Afghanistan's Herat province on Monday, Anadolu Agency reports. According...

Turkiye's president has condemned the Taliban government's banning of female higher education in Afghanistan, calling it "un-Islamic." Last month, Afghanistan's Taliban government decided to suspend university education for women,...

Migrants made nearly 330,000 attempts to enter the European Union (EU) without a permit last year – the highest number since 2016, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency...

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, denounced the Taliban's order to ban university and primary education for Afghanistan's women as "un-Islamic", local Turkish media reports. "It is inhumane and un-Islamic,"...

Thousands of Afghan citizens who served Britain in its army and other bodies were evacuated with their families from Afghanistan in what was reported as the biggest British military...

Sending Harry, a Prince of the Realm, to help bring democracy to Afghanistan was always a crass idea. The UK King's son owes everything in his life to hereditary privilege and not...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) plans to send a delegation to Afghanistan for talks with the Taliban-led government on women's rights to education and employment, Anadolu News Agency...

Prince Harry has hit back at "hurtful" responses to his record-selling memoir, saying he was particularly upset by the "lie" that he had boasted that he had killed 25...

Much has changed since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on US soil, after which the country launched a so-called "global war on terror". America withdrew its military forces from...

A district council in Devon has voted to investigate renting a cruise ship to house refugees and homeless people. The council says that demand for public housing has been...

The Western media spewed forth barrel loads of pompous invective recently about why Qatar should never have been chosen to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Bewildered Qataris found...

The British government has, so far, failed to deliver on its promise to resettle tens of thousands of vulnerable Afghans in the United Kingdom over the coming years, a...

If it seems like Groundhog Day in Afghanistan, you could be right. The ruling Taliban seems to have made little change to its ideology and is even further away...

The Taliban administration has criticised Prince Harry after the British Royal said in his memoir that he had killed 25 people in Afghanistan when serving as a military helicopter...

The prince’s time in Afghanistan was mired in controversy including a racism row Harry clip - my little Paki friend

In a bitterly cold bedroom at the start of winter in Kabul, 22-year Maryam sat with her baby son bundled up in a red jumper as he coughed days...

In a Wednesday phone call, the top Turkish and Qatari diplomats both repeated their denunciation of yesterday's provocation at Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israel's new National Security Minister, said an...

Save the Children said 4 out 10 Lebanese and Syrian refugee children already face food insecurity and this number is set to grow in 2023

Iran plans to accept more female students from Afghanistan following the ruling Taliban's refusal to allow women and girls to study in the country. The official Islamic Republic News...

During his recent visit to the White House, US President Joe Biden promised Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the Ukrainian leader would "never stand alone". The grinning Zelenskyy reminded me of...

Iraq and Syria have ranked high among the most dangerous countries for journalists, according to a report by Reporters Without Borders published on Friday. The report indicated that 1,668...

Nearly 1,700 journalists have been killed across the world over the past 20 years, an average of more than 80 a year, according to a report published by Reporters...

Migrants seek refuge  in abandoned building in Brussels

Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration on Saturday ordered all local and foreign non-governmental organisations (NGO) to stop female employees from coming to work, according to an economy ministry letter, in the...

Afghanistan's Taliban government has banned higher education for females in the country, resulting in a flurry of condemnations from countries around the world.

The foreign ministry in Riyadh has expressed its regret at Kabul's decision to suspend university access for female students

When social media solidified itself into the collective consciousness of technology users in the first decade of this century, it was increasingly looking like a revolutionary tool and saviour...

A demonstration in Geneva following the suicide of an Afghan refugee after the local court ordered his deportation