MANILA, Philippines – The Afghan nationals transiting to process their Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) in the Philippines have arrived on Monday, a stay expected to last no longer than 59 days ...

TRANSIT. Afghan nationals transiting to process their Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) in the Philippines arrive on Monday (Jan. 6, 2025). The Philippines will host up to 300 Afghan nationals who worked ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This photo provided by U.S. Embassy, Philippines, shows the arrival of Afghan U.S. Special Immigrant Visa ...

The recent cross-border strikes by Pakistan and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), backed by the Afghan Taliban, have heightened tensions between the two neighbours. Traditionally, before the ...

The sudden collapse of the Afghan government and rise of the Taliban showed that the United States could not buy favorable Afghan perceptions of the country’s corrupt leaders and government ...

Once-close ties between Pakistan’s leaders and the Afghan Taliban have frayed, and violent cross-border exchanges have become alarmingly frequent. Officially, the Pakistani government has been ...

As the world looks ahead to 2025, a group of young Afghan women brave great personal risk to share their hopes and dreams for the new year, one they'd love to live free from Taliban rule.

The announcement comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly. In a letter published on X ...

Islamist group warns Islamabad not to ‘underestimate our capabilities’ as it dispatches battalions of fighters to the border The Afghan Taliban has launched a wave of artillery strikes against ...

Three Afghan people smugglers who were part of a gang that sexually abused young male migrants have been arrested in the UK. The men were part of an organised crime group that “inflicted extreme ...

To mark the show's finale, Syston Knitting Banxy (SKB) created woollen Smithy and Nessa figurines to display on a bollard in the town's shopping centre. SKB - who keeps her identity secret - said ...

Every day before dawn, Jamil Ghafori gets to work on the floor of a cramped Kabul bakery with five other men churning out thousands of traditional flatbreads – the staple of every Afghan meal.