California is gearing up to welcome 5,000 Afghan refugees, and the state is getting ready
After a month of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, fears of women being barred from higher education and public life are growing. Lawmakers in the United States are urging the Biden administration to maintain pressure on Taliban officials to protect women’s rights
In southern California, many Vietnamese Americans are volunteering to assist Afghan refugees. Titi Tran conducted interviews with residents of Orange County’s Little Saigon and Afghan refugees living in a nearby Afghan American neighbourhood for this report
Award Winning Documentary Film Makers Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi’s new documentary, 20 Years in Afghanistan, is their most recent work
Alina Jun Nawabi was born in Afghanistan but spent years in hospitals after being taken to the United States as an injured war victim. She now works for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), where she is assisting additional Afghans to leave the country
Afghan Refugee Assistance: Over 80,000 persons, including US citizens and Afghan refugees, have been evacuated from Afghanistan in the last two weeks. Fatima Popal started collecting donations in her Washington, D.C. restaurant to help newcomers from Afghanistan settle in
A group of 117 Afghans has left for the United Kingdom after being evacuated to Kosovo recently. On September 16, the evacuees, identified as civilians who cooperated with NATO forces in Afghanistan and their families, flew out of Pristina International Airport.In Belgrade, a celebration commemorating Serbian National Unity Day was held in front of a monument honouring Serbian king Stefan Nemanja from the 12th century
The United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in Afghanistan is chaired by Geraldine Byrne Nason, Ireland’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for September on
Hundreds of unregistered refugees, many of them Afghans, have been detained in Istanbul by Turkish officials. The crackdown comes as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government faces mounting public pressure to halt any influx of Afghans to Turkey following the Taliban’s control of the country
Reporters taking photographs of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Prior of a High-Level Ministerial Meeting in Geneva on the Humanitarian Situation in Afghanistan