The Trump administration has announced an expansion of travel restrictions to include 20 more countries.

Immigration lawyers and authorities say arrests of Afghans are on the rise following the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. The suspect in the attack is an Afghan national.

An overnight exchange of fire between Afghan and Pakistani forces along their tense border has killed five Afghan civilians and wounded five others.

Authorities have charged a Texas man with making threats online after they say a video showing him threatening to build a bomb and conduct a suicide attack was posted to TikTok and other social media sites.

The Trump administration has announced new immigration restrictions following the shooting of two National Guard members by a suspect who is an Afghan national.

The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions and paused issuing visas for people traveling on Afghan passports.

The Trump administration is promising a stricter anti-immigration agenda after an Afghan national was being charged in the shooting of two National Guard members.

President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status.

People who work with refugees are worried about backlash after authorities say an Afghan national shot National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C., this week.

The man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington is one of about 76,000 Afghans brought to the U.S. after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

An initial United Nations assessment of the impact of Afghanistan’s recent deadly earthquake has found that 5,230 homes were destroyed and 672 were damaged in 49 villages — but the U.N. hasn’t been able to get to the vast majority of the remote villages.

A bus crash in northwestern Afghanistan has killed at least 79 people, including 19 children.

The independent U_N_ investigator on human rights in Afghanistan says its Taliban rulers have “weaponized” the legal and judicial system to oppress women and girls in what amounts to “crimes against humanity."

Officials say Pakistan has resumed the forced deportation of Afghan refugees after the federal government declined to extend a key deadline for their stay.

A UN report says the Taliban have tortured and threatened Afghans forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan because of their identity or personal history.

Thousands of Afghans in the U.S. are no longer protected from deportation after a federal appeals court refused to postpone the Trump administration’s decision to end their legal status.

British media reports say a major data leak has exposed the identities of U.K. spies and special forces.

The current and previous British governments are facing criticism over a secret program that resettled thousands of Afghans in the U.K. after the Taliban's return to power in 2021.

An appeals court has briefly extended protections for nearly 12,000 Afghans in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status.

The Trump administration’s travel ban on people from Afghanistan is sending ripples of concern across the Afghan community and their supporters.

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration wrongly ended humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands of people allowed to live in the United States temporarily.

The Trump administration’s suspension of the federal refugee program has upended the lives of many Afghans who worked with the United States during wartime.

Pakistan says it plans to expel 3 million Afghans this year.

A leading rights group says that Pakistan's authorities have intensified pressure on Afghan refugees to go back to neighboring Afghanistan where they risk persecution by the Taliban and face dire economic conditions.

Pakistani authorities have stepped up arrests of Afghan citizens in Islamabad and the nearby city of Rawalpindi and are forcing them to move elsewhere in Pakistan.

Thousands of Afghan refugees who worked alongside American soldiers in Afghanistan and underwent a yearslong vetting process to enter the United States are in limbo.

Two U.N. refugees and migration agencies have expressed their concern over Pakistan’s recent decision to forcibly deport thousands of Afghan refugees awaiting here for relocation to the United States and elsewhere.

Refugees who had been approved to come to the United States before America’s refugee resettlement program is suspended next week have had their travel plans canceled by the Trump administration.

Afghans who fled after the Taliban seized power have appealed to President Donald Trump to exempt them from an order suspending the relocation of refugees to the United States, some saying they risked their lives to support U.S. troops.

A jury in Panama City, Florida, on Friday found that CNN defamed a U.S. Navy veteran in a 2021 story about people paid to rescue endangered Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country.

Peace is driving up property prices in Kabul and fueling the luxury market.

Australia's Defense Minister Richard Marles says several serving and former military commanders have been stripped of medals over allegations of war crimes committed during the Afghanistan war.

Three years ago, the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan when the last American plane departed Kabul.

The Taliban say it's mandatory for Afghan women to conceal their voices and bare faces in public.

The Taliban’s morality police are contributing to a climate of fear and intimidation among Afghans.

About 6.5 million children in Afghanistan are forecast to experience crisis levels of hunger in 2024.

President Joe Biden and congressional leaders have reached an agreement on this fiscal year’s final set of spending bills.

Senators from both major political parties are urging congressional leaders to ensure that more visas are made available to Afghans who worked alongside U.S. troops in America’s longest war.

Human Rights Watch says Afghanistan’s public health system has been hit hard following a sharp reduction in foreign assistance, coupled with serious Taliban abuses against women and girls, It says this is jeopardizing the right to healthcare of millions of Afghans.

The massive $118 billion Senate border bill not only includes once-in-a-decade border security legislation and wartime aid to Israel and Ukraine, but also offers a chance for the U.S. to keep its promise to Afghans who worked alongside U.S. soldiers in America’s longest war.

About 1.3 million Afghans are expected to return to their country of origin from Pakistan, the U.N. health agency warned, weeks after authorities began expelling foreigners living in the country illegally.

Pakistan’s prime minister has sought to reassure at least 25,000 Afghans waiting in Pakistan for resettlement in the United States that they won’t be deported as part of his government’s widely criticized crackdown on undocumented migrants in the country.

Aid groups say Afghans fleeing a deportation drive in Pakistan lack shelter, food, and warmth once they cross the border.

Major international aid agencies are warning of chaotic and desperate scenes among Afghans who have returned from Pakistan, where security forces are detaining and deporting undocumented or unregistered foreigners.

Afghans are piling into trucks and buses and leaving Pakistan to avoid arrest and deportation.

A group of former U.S. diplomats and representatives of resettlement organizations has asked Pakistan not to deport thousands of Afghans who have been waiting for U.S. visas under an American program that relocates at-risk Afghan refugees fleeing Taliban rule.

More than 840,000 Afghans and their families who applied for a resettlement program aimed at people who helped the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan are still there waiting.

When the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan in August 2021 it airlifted tens of thousands of Afghans to safety.

A former Afghan interpreter for the U.S. military was killed in a shooting this past week in Washington has been laid to rest.

The U.N. envoy for Afghanistan is warning the country’s Taliban rulers that international recognition as the country’s legitimate government will remain “nearly impossible” unless they lift severe restrictions on women and girls’ education and employment.

Italy's Foreign Ministry says the first of some 300 Afghan refugees have arrived in Italy along a new humanitarian corridor organized by the Italian government and other groups.

For many of the Afghans evacuated to the United States last August, their journey remains very much a work in progress.

A U.S. advisory body says that Afghanistan should join a list of the world's worst violators of religious freedom.

Afghan families evacuated to the United States when the Taliban regained power are celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The head of the United Nations says nearly all Afghans don’t have enough to eat and some have resorted to “selling their children and their body parts” to get money for food.

Afghanistan is the unhappiest country in the world — even before the Taliban swept to power last August.

Afghan refugees in the U.S. will be allowed to stay for at least 18 months under temporary protected status, a move that'll help some of the thousands who arrived following the American withdrawal from their country.

A first group of Afghan refugees have arrived at a new temporary housing facility in Northern Virginia as the U.S. works to resettle people who fled the Taliban takeover of their country.

Afghan refugees who fled their country following the Taliban takeover six months ago are struggling to find affordable housing in the high-cost U.S. cities where they’ve chosen to settle.

The last of thousands of Afghan refugees who awaited resettlement at eight U.S. military installations departed from a New Jersey base on Saturday.

Afghanistan has undergone a dramatic transformation in half a year of Taliban rule.

Afghanistan’s former president has called a White House order to unfreeze $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of 9/11 victims an atrocity against the Afghan people.

Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital have condemned President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of America’s 9/11 victims.

The military investigation into the deadly attack during the Afghanistan evacuation has concluded that a suicide bomber, carrying 20 pounds of explosives packed with ball bearings, acted alone, and that the deaths of more than 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members were not preventable.

Afghan evacuees in Albania have opened an exhibition on their impressions on the tiny Western Balkan country.

The Taliban and western diplomats have began their first official talks in Europe since they took over control of Afghanistan in August.

A grim situation in Afghanistan is getting worse.

The Taliban are promising to try to open all schools for girls across Afghanistan after the Afghan New Year, which starts in late March.

United Nations World Food Program senior official Mary-Ellen McGroarty is warning that Afghanistan is facing a “tsunami" of hunger because of a shortage of funds that's needed to get food to people across the country.

Federal immigration officials have denied hundreds of Afghans seeking temporary entry into the country for humanitarian reasons.

The Treasury Department says it is issuing special licenses to ensure that some international aid can flow to Afghanistan.

When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August, some Afghans resolved to escape and embarked on forbidding journeys of thousands of kilometers to Europe.

A whistleblower has alleged that Britain’s Foreign Office abandoned many of the nation’s allies in Afghanistan and left them to the mercy of the Taliban during the fall of the capital, Kabul, because of a dysfunctional and arbitrary evacuation effort.

More than 100 Afghans believed to have been at risk from the Taliban have been granted temporary shelter in Greece after being evacuated on a special flight to the northern city of Thessaloniki.

Thousands of Afghans have applied for temporary admission into the U.S. for humanitarian reasons, but few have been approved since the Taliban recaptured control of their homeland.

A coalition of organizations working to help people escape Taliban rule in Afghanistan appealed Monday for more assistance from the U.S. government and other nations as conditions deteriorate in the country.

The Gulf nation of Qatar has agreed to represent U.S. interests in Afghanistan following the closure of the American embassy in Kabul in late August.

Pope Francis is visiting the hilltop town of his namesake for the fifth time of his pontificate, to mark the Catholic Church’s world day of the poor.

A top aid official says thousands of Afghan refugees are fleeing the Taliban into neighboring Iran every day and the trend could eventually become a crisis for Europe.

The Associated Press has learned that an independent Pentagon review has concluded that the U.S. drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war was not caused by misconduct or negligence, and it doesn’t recommend any disciplinary action.

The Pentagon says it has temporarily removed from its visual information website tens of thousands of photo and video images of Afghans who supported the U.S. war effort and who may be vulnerable to retaliation by the Taliban.

Ordinary Americans and the nation's airlines are combining to donate miles and cash to help Afghan refugees resettle in the United States.

The U.S. is welcoming tens of thousands of Afghans airlifted out of Kabul but has disclosed little publicly about a small group who remain overseas.

The U.S. Defense Department says it is committed to offering condolence payments to relatives of the 10 people who were killed in an errant U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August.

Qatar’s foreign minister says isolating Afghanistan and its new Taliban rulers “will never be an answer.”.

Spain’s defense ministry has completed the evacuation of another 160 Afghans who had initially been left behind following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

The Taliban have ruled out cooperation with the U.S. to contain extremist groups in Afghanistan.

Officials say senior Taliban members and U.S. representatives are to hold talks about containing extremist groups in Afghanistan and easing the evacuation of foreign citizens and Afghans from the country.

The Biden administration says the coronavirus pandemic and the difficulty of reversing Trump administration policies were responsible for the record-low number of refugees admitted to the United States during the 2021 budget year.

Refugee admissions to the United States fell to a record low during the 2021 budget year despite President Joe Biden’s pledge to bring back the program that was decimated by the Trump administration.

Afghan refugees will soon be arriving in the U.S. after a massive campaign to vaccinate them against measles.

Most people in the U.S. want to see Afghans who worked with Americans in the Afghanistan war offered refuge in the United States.

The U.S. military expects to begin receiving new Afghanistan evacuees in the United States next week, as thousands begin to wrap up a three-week pause in Europe and the Middle East to get measles shots.

Reporters have been given a glimpse of life on a Wisconsin Army post for newly arrived Afghan refugees.

The Taliban have banned barbershops in a southern Afghanistan province from shaving or trimming beards, claiming their edict is in line with Shariah, or Islamic, law.

The Taliban have hanged a dead body from a crane in a main city square in Afghanistan.

Albanian authorities say that another group of Afghans has arrived in the country fleeing their homeland after the Taliban took power there.

Army veteran Spencer Sullivan has never felt more victorious.

The Biden administration says the U.S. will take in 125,000 refugees and their families next year, fulfilling an earlier pledge to raise a cap that had been at a historic low under his predecessor.

Pakistan’s foreign minister says Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers should understand that if they want recognition and assistance in rebuilding the war-battered country “they have to be more sensitive and more receptive to international opinion and norms.”.