The Taliban should end the arbitrary detention, torture, and other ill-treatment of journalists, discriminatory restrictions on women journalists, and censorship. Countries with Afghan journalists in exile should end their forced return to Afghanistan.

As they walked up to the thick metal pillars of the border wall dividing Tijuana and San Diego, the Hussaini siblings carried nothing from their lives in Afghanistan than a hazy fantasy of what awaited them on the other side.

Afghanistan and Pakistan, embroiled in fighting that has killed dozens of people and injured hundreds, pledged on Sunday to respect a ceasefire.The truce, mediated by Qatar and Turkey, came into effect immediately and is intended to pause hostilities ...

Some 1,300 Afghans are in limbo at an American camp in Qatar, unable to continue to the U.S. but in danger if they go back home.

Afghans living in Pakistan — including those outside border areas — say the Pakistani government is escalating pressure for them to leave the country.

In “The Finest Hotel in Kabul,” the BBC journalist Lyse Doucet tells the story of a country through what was once its most luxurious hotel.

Even as Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to a ceasefire following weeks of border tensions, the situation for Afghan refugees in Pakistan has taken a grim turn. Afghanistan’s ambassador to Pakistan, Sardar Ahmed Shakib,

Hanifa Anwarzai, a former elementary school teacher in Kabul, remembers Afghanistan at peace. ''The kids would draw pictures of flowers, of beautiful women. Good stuff,'' said Anwarzai, 57, a Santa Rosa resident and a grandmother. Soviet forces swept into ...

An elderly British couple who were held by the Taliban for seven months without charge have been freed. Barbie, 76, and Peter Reynolds, 80, have been released from detention in Afghanistan, the Foreign Office has confirmed. The couple landed in Doha on ...

Manoozh Noori said she "wanted to die" when the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.Noori had defied family pressure to represent Afghanistan professionally by playing for the country's national women's squad before a Taliban government returned to power.

SACRAMENTO — President Trump's travel ban is hitting one Northern California community especially hard. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump signed a proclamation banning travel and immigration from a dozen countries and restricting the entry of nationals of seven ...