The Taliban has arrested four young Afghan men for "promoting alien culture” because they wore outfits like those of the leading male characters in the British historical crime drama Peaky Blinders.
Iranian border guards shot and killed at least 10 Afghans who entered Iran illegally in early December, according to Taliban officials. The incident underscored how dangerous the Iranian border has become for Afghans.
Iranian border guards shot and killed at least 10 Afghans who entered Iran illegally in early December amid a growing crackdown.
The past year was another bleak one for journalists, with dozens killed and hundreds more behind bars around the world, according to media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders
With Iran facing severe water shortages after years of drought, the country's energy minister says he wants to import water from neighboring nations. Climatologist Nasser Karami told RFE/RL's Radio Farda that a deal with Afghanistan might work best.
Escalating tensions between Islamabad and Kabul are threatening the interests of China, the dominant economic player in the region.
The United States said it is halting all immigration requests relating to Afghanistan after an Afghan national shot two members of the National Guard, one of whom died a day after the shooting near the White House.
Three Chinese citizens working for a gold-extraction company in southern Tajikistan have been killed in an attack -- the second in a year -- that Tajik authorities say was carried out from across the border with Afghanistan.
Afghan migrants and refugees in Pakistan are being rounded up by authorities amid soaring tensions with the Taliban-led government in neighboring Afghanistan. Pakistan is trying to repatriate millions of Afghans after hosting them for decades.
The United States will immediately stop all immigration requests relating to Afghanistan after an Afghan national shot and critically wounded two members of the National Guard not far from the White House in Washington, D.C., on November 26.
Tens of thousands of Afghans involuntarily returned to their country every week as Pakistan goes ahead with plans to repatriate all Afghan refugees and migrants back into Afghanistan. RFE/RL has spoken to many who are being returned to a country they've never lived in.
The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has vowed a "necessary response" after air strikes allegedly carried out by Pakistan killed at least 10 people -- nine of whom were children -- in the eastern border region between the two countries.
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