Afghanistan

A total of 130 irregular migrants pushed back into Turkish territorial waters by Greek forces were rescued on Saturday by the Turkish Coast Guard off the coasts of western...

Iranian authorities executed 11 people from the Baluch minority on drug charges within 48 hours, according to a non-governmental organisation, raising concerns that this group has been disproportionately targeted...

A teenage girl ended her life last week by hanging herself at her home in Afghanistan's rugged central province of Bamyan, Anadolu has reported. Her family refrained from disclosing...

The Taliban-run Afghanistan administration said, on Monday, it had met US Special Representative, Tom West, in Qatar and discussed the lifting of travel and other restrictions on Taliban leaders...

The arrogance and ignorance of the Western media were highlighted a few days ago when a former British army officer-turned-politician was accused of making himself a "useful idiot" for...

The interim Taliban administration in Afghanistan, on Thursday, confirmed a meeting between its top diplomat and US officials in Doha, Qatar late this week, Anadolu Agency reports. Abdul Qahar...

US officials will meet Taliban representatives and "technocratic professionals" from key Afghan ministries during a visit to Doha this week, the State Department said on Wednesday, adding they will...

The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) has launched a campaign to help protect mosques from being bullied by the charities' regulator in England and Wales into adopting policies that...

A spike in grain prices since Russia quit a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain "potentially threatens hunger and worse for millions of people," the...

Britain has condemned the desecration and burning of the Quran, Islam's holy book, in the Swedish capital city of Stockholm, Anadolu Agency reports. In a written statement issued by...

British Conservative MP, Tobias Ellwood, has praised the Taliban government in Afghanistan for "totally transforming" the country, calling for the United Kingdom to establish relations with and recognise the...

The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, a major humanitarian organisation, has paused some of its operations, it said on Wednesday, after a Taliban order halting Swedish activities in the country,...

Iran's Foreign Minister discussed the situation in Afghanistan with the UN's point man on the war-torn nation, as Russia has invited ruling Taliban officials to a meeting in Moscow,...

Two children drown, on average, per day while trying to cross Central Mediterranean due to the "absence of safe and legal routes", the UN Children's Agency, UNICEF, said on...

The Taliban administration halted all activities by Sweden in Afghanistan on Tuesday in response to the burning of a Quran in Stockholm last month, and a major Swedish aid...

Iran has publicly executed two people over a Daesh attack on a Shia shrine in the city of Shiraz last year. According to Iran's judiciary, the two men –...

In March, the South African Communist Party (SACP) denounced what it described as the "imperialist bias" of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The denunciation of the ICC as a...

The UK's top diplomat to Afghanistan, on Thursday, said that he met the Taliban officials in the capital, Kabul, and discussed various issues, including the rights of women and...

The number of asylum applications in the European Union reached 996,000 in 2022, the highest in six years, according to an annual report published by the European Union Agency...

The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has ordered beauty salons to close within a month, the morality ministry said, in the latest shrinking of access to public places for Afghan...

Russia, on Tuesday, restated a demand for its state agricultural bank to be reconnected to the global SWIFT payments system and said it would not accept a reported compromise...

The largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation in the US has expressed shock at the recent disclosure of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s secret surveillance and listing...

Pakistan has decided to charge the suspected human traffickers involved in last month's shipwreck off the coast of Greece under the country's anti-money laundering law, an official statement said...

Food assistance to Afghanistan will shrink to nothing by the end of October under current funding projections, the World Food Programme's (WFP) Country Director told Reuters on Friday, as...

Survivors of a boat disaster that likely killed hundreds of migrants near Greece have given accounts of traffickers in North Africa cramming them into a clapped-out fishing trawler. They...

Philippine President, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., said Thursday that no final decision has been taken yet regarding a US request for his country to temporarily host up to 1,000 Afghan...

Using Afghanistan, Palestine-Israel and Kashmir as case studies we'll discuss how Islamic law is often misconstrued and mis-represented in the media

The BRICS group, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, continues to attract applications from numerous countries as it explores expansion opportunities, Anadolu Agency reports. Anadolu compiled the...

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan's Kandahar province ordered female aid workers, this week, to stop work on a refugee project, according to an official letter, reinforcing rules against women working...

An Afghan boy who was brought to the US after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021 passed away while in the custody of the federal government, according...

A US army veteran has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for the murder of an Afghan refugee after he shouted Islamophobic slurs at the victim, Anadolu Agency...

The UN envoy for Afghanistan said, Wednesday, it is "nearly impossible" for the international community to recognise the Taliban unless the group's bans on women's rights are lifted, Anadolu...