Following a deadly ambush on a Pakistan convoy bringing supplies to Kurram, a region bordering Afghanistan , social media ...

Ahmad Habibzi pauses to pray at the top of the halfpipe hill on a mountain at the Yabuli Ski Resort in northeastern China.

Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021, the fundamentalist group has banned education for women and girls post-primary school. Women cannot go to parks, and beauty salons and ...

The Taliban government has not validated the women’s participation in sports under the official Afghan flag, as required by the International Cricket Council, but Sarwari said that her team’s ...

More than three years after fleeing Afghanistan as the Taliban swept to power, a women's team of refugee cricketers will play an exhibition match in Melbourne on Thursday, hoping it will be a ...

A caseworker for a company that assists refugees was in surgery Wednesday after a Afghan refugee allegedly stabbed him multiple times, authorities in Oakland County said. Deputies in Orion ...

Thousands of Afghans who stood up to the Taliban or have ties to the U.S. are stuck in limbo thanks to President Donald Trump's executive order suspending the relocation of refugees to the United ...

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Afghans who have been approved to come to the U.S. as refugees, including allies during the war and a couple of hundred family members of American troops, are now stranded after the Trump ...

The Afghan migrant who stabbed a two-year-old boy and a passerby to death in a German park was supposed to have left the country. The knifeman, aged 28, ambushed a nursery group and killed the ...

The suspension of the program leaves tens of thousands of Afghan refugees at risk, many of whom have already been vetted by the U.S., advocacy groups say. “It’s unconscionable to abandon them ...