Afghanistan

Children from an Afghan family look outside from a torn tent as they along with their family are returning home, after Pakistan gives the last warning to undocumented immigrants to leave, outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) repatriation centres in Azakhel town in Nowshera, Pakistan November 1, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz
South Asia

Factbox-Why is Pakistan deporting over a million undocumented Afghan immigrants?

The sudden expulsion threat came after suicide bombings this year that the government said involved Afghans, though without providing evidence

Afghan citizens wait with their belongings to cross into Afghanistan, after Pakistan gives the last warning to undocumented immigrants to leave, at the Friendship Gate of Chaman Border Crossing along the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border in Balochistan Province, in Chaman, Pakistan October 31, 2023. File Photo: REUTERS/Abdul Khaliq Achakzai
South Asia

As deadline to leave Pakistan expires, official says over 100,000 Afghans gone home

FILE PHOTO: Trucks loaded with belongings are seen as Afghan refugees are returning home, after Pakistan gives the last warning to undocumented immigrants to leave, outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) repatriation centres in Azakhel town in Nowshera, Pakistan October 30, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz/File photo
South Asia

Pakistan to start expelling undocumented immigrants on Thursday - Minister

Afghan people gather to board buses as they prepare to return home, after Pakistan gave last warning to undocumented migrants to leave, at a bus stop in Karachi, Pakistan October 29, 2023. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
South Asia

Afghans return to Taliban rule as Pakistan moves to expel 1.7 million

Muhammad Rahim, 35, a driver and father of two, who was born in Karachi in an Afghan family, sits with his family in a pickup van as they prepare to return home, after Pakistan gave last warning to undocumented migrants to leave, at a bus stop in Karachi, Pakistan October 29, 2023. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
South Asia

Afghans return to Taliban rule as Pakistan moves to expel 1.7 million

Afghan women who are living in Pakistan wait to get registered during a proof of registration drive at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Peshawar, Pakistan September 30, 2021. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz/File Photo
South Asia

US encourages Afghanistan's neighbors, including Pakistan, to accept refugees

People search for survivors amid the debris of a house that was destroyed by an earthquake in the district of Zinda Jan, in Herat, Afghanistan October 9, 2023. REUTERS/Ali Khara
South Asia

WFP calls for $19 million to provide emergency food in quake-hit Afghanistan

FILE PHOTO: Muhammad Ismail, 40, sits with his family while they are waiting to cross main Afghanistan-Pakistan land border crossing, in Torkham, Pakistan September 15, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz/File Photo
South Asia

UN rights experts call on Pakistan to axe plans for mass deportation of Afghans

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Food

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A boy cries as he sits next to debris, in the aftermath of an earthquake in the district of Zinda Jan, in Herat, Afghanistan, October 8, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer
South Asia

Magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes western Afghanistan - EMSC

A view of houses damaged by an earthquake, in Herat province in Afghanistan October 8, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer
South Asia

US to announce $12 million in aid for Afghanistan following earthquakes

A view of houses damaged by an earthquake, in Herat province in Afghanistan October 8, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer
South Asia

Afghanistan earthquakes a 'disaster on top of a disaster': World Food Programme

A general view of the quake-hit area in the district of Zinda Jan, in Herat, Afghanistan October 10, 2023. REUTERS/Ali Khara
Middle East

Another quake hits western Afghanistan; official says losses 'huge'