Afghanistan

Today, 20 June, 2023, is "World Refugee Day". In 2001, on the 50th anniversary of the United Nation's (UN) adoption of the "Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of...

They say sport has the power to change lives. What might sound like a cliché to many, holds immense truth for people like Marzieh Hamidi and Ahmad Badreddin Wais....

Fadi, a Syrian teenager, with curly hair and an acne-covered face, has miraculously survived one of the greatest migrant boat disasters in the modern history of the Mediterranean. Only...

US arms left in Afghanistan have been smuggled to the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, Sama News Agency reported on Friday. The local Palestinian news agency disclosed that...

Governments and regimes throughout the world have been no strangers to using narcotics as a major revenue source. More recently, during this era of sanctions, that practice has been...

The UN children's agency said it was holding discussions with Afghanistan's ruling Taliban over "timelines and practicalities" for a possible required handover of its education programmes and that classes would continue...

The interim Taliban administration in Afghanistan said, Thursday, that poppy cultivation in the country has been "almost eradicated" and praised the recent UK-based organisation's report which acknowledged their efforts...

At 4am on 26 February 2023 at least 94 people died when the boat Summer Love crashed onto the rocks near the Italian village of Steccato di Cutro. The...

The United States and several other countries have committed human rights violations against a Saudi man held in the Guantanamo prison and accused of organising the bombing of the...

Afghan girls who educate the children of poor families living in caves in a classroom in Bamyan, one of Afghanistan's most deprived provinces, instil hope for the future of...

The Qatari Prime Minister held secret talks with the Supreme Leader of the Taliban this month on resolving tension with the international community, a source briefed on the meeting...

Clashes erupted over the border between Afghanistan and Iran over the weekend, leading to a Taliban official threatening to conquer Iran amid increased tensions and an ongoing water dispute....

At least two Iranian border guards were killed and two others injured in fierce clashes with the Taliban at a border outpost in southeastern Iran on Saturday, reports Anadolu...

The General Manager of the National Iranian Gas Company, Majid Jakini, said that if his country exports natural gas to Europe, it will be done through Turkiye. This came...

Two people who took direct action to dismantle and occupy a weapons factory were given prison sentences on Tuesday after pleading guilty to charges of criminal damage. A third...

A new report by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor) has revealed a significant disparity in the treatment of unaccompanied minors of asylum seekers compared to the accompanied...

The top diplomats of Iran and Afghanistan, on Thursday, discussed over the phone the long-running water dispute, according to the Afghan Foreign Ministry, Anadolu News Agency reports. During the...

Some Afghan families who were placed in hotels before being put into temporary accommodation across the UK are being sent letters of eviction by the Home Office, Anadolu News...

Iran has stepped up pressure on the Taliban government in Afghanistan to resolve a long-running dispute over shared water resources, Anadolu News Agency reports. The dispute is centred on...

The Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed Bin Abdul Rahman Al-Thani met Taliban officials in the Afghan city of Kandahar, in the south of the country...

I begin this article with prayers for the souls of the righteous martyrs of the Gaza Strip, and curses for the fascist occupation forces that attack our people in...

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Turkish opposition presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu yesterday pledged to return refugees who fled the war in neighbouring Syria within the next two years if he wins the upcoming presidential...

Approval ratings of Saudi Arabia's leadership was found to be higher than Iran's across all 13 Muslim-majority countries surveyed by in a poll conducted by US analytics firm, Gallup....

The UN chief will be hosting a special meeting on Afghanistan next month, his office said on Thursday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Stephane Dujarric, a spokesman for UN Secretary-General,...

Iran has reiterated its claim over disputed shared water resources with neighbouring Afghanistan, Anadolu News Agency reports. Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said on Monday that he discussed the dispute...

The foreign ministers of Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan, on Thursday, held the US and its allies, who hastily withdrew from Afghanistan in 2020, responsible for the country's "disastrous...

Russia took the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council on 1 April. The role is held by each of the member states in turn for one month, in...

President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday released a summary of classified reports that mostly blamed the chaotic August 2021 US pullout from Afghanistan on his predecessor, Donald Trump, for...

When I shared the news on social media that Indonesia had refused to host the Israeli team at the Under-20 FIFA World Cup scheduled from 20 May 20 to...

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court once proposed to issue an international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, noting that there was a "strong case" against him....

The British government has laid out the details of a plan which requires asylum seekers and migrants to be placed in former military barracks, barges and ships as it...