He was not alone. Thousands of Afghan families were separated in the rushed withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Babies were passed across throngs of people and over fences, and families ...

Hamed Paykar thought his three-year ordeal was finally going to be over. The Afghan journalist and his family have been living in Pakistan since shortly after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan ...

Now, with his sister stranded in Qatar ahead of an expected ban on the entry of Afghan nationals by the administration of President Donald Trump, he wonders what it was all for. "When I first ...

Washington (AFP) – As a young man, Muhammad Ilyas stood side-by-side with US soldiers as they took on the Taliban in his native Afghanistan, working as an interpreter and driven by a need for ...

The Afghan War medal is awarded to members of the armed forces who served in Afghanistan between October 2001 and August 2021. The Iraq War medal is for service members who served in Iraq between ...

open image in gallery Taliban security personnel stand guard as an Afghan burqa-clad woman walks along a street at a market in the Baharak district of Badakhshan province (AFP/Getty) Afghan women ...

In a major setback for more than 80 Afghan women who fled the Taliban controlled Afghanistan to Oman to pursue higher education, they face a possible return amid US President Donald Trump’s funding ...

“Now, we’re living as if we’re under house arrest - we don’t leave our home anymore for fear of being detained,” said Shirzad, a former Afghan aid worker for a U.S.-founded organizatio ...

Pakistan has ordered all "illegal foreigners" and Afghan Citizen Card holders to leave by March 31, warning of deportations from April 1. The move, citing security concerns, has drawn international ...

The investigation's results presented overwhelming evidence of the Afghan Taliban's (TTA) increasing support to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) through logistical assistance and operational ...

Expectations that President Donald Trump will soon bar Afghans and Pakistanis from entering the United States has set off panic among Afghans who were promised visas for their work with the U.S ...

The building is inhabited almost entirely by Afghan families, and the alarm sent children who were playing in the hallway dashing into their apartments. A woman discreetly pulled her door shut ...