Safi did keep moving. The former Afghan government employee fled his country after the Taliban swept to power, made it through the Amazon jungle and arrived at the U.S. southern border in 2022.

But with recent funding cuts under U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, she worries other Afghan women like her won't have the same chance to get a formal education. She says having ...

They have gradually erased Afghan women from public space, imposing what the United Nations has called a "gender apartheid". They outlawed the loose headscarves commonly worn by urban women.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A leading rights group said on Wednesday that Pakistan’s authorities have intensified pressure on Afghan refugees to go back to neighboring Afghanistan, where they risk ...

FILE - Taliban fighters stand near the closed Torkham border with Pakistan, where Pakistani and Afghan forces exchanged fire overnight, in Torkham, Afghanistan, Monday, March 3, 2025.(AP Photo ...

Rights Group Says Pakistan Steps up Pressure on Afghans to Return Home Where They Risk Persecution ISLAMABAD (AP) — A leading rights group said on Wednesday that Pakistan's authorities have ...

Taliban fighters stand near the closed Torkham border with Pakistan, where Pakistani and Afghan forces exchanged fire overnight, in Torkham, Afghanistan, Monday, March 3, 2025.(AP Photo/Shafiullah ...

Lawmakers and veterans supporting Afghans who worked for the U.S. during the country's longest war want aid to be restored to bring these individuals and their families to the U.S., especially ...

WASHINGTON — When Andrew Sullivan thinks of the people his organization has helped resettle in America, one particular story comes to mind: an Afghan man in a wheelchair who was shot through the ...