The international sanctions and the internal economic concerns have influenced Iran to change its stance towards the Afghan refugees ...

TEHRAN, Iran, May 5 (UNHCR) - Afghan refugees in Iran have started receiving a new form of repatriation assistance - not in the form of a cash grant, relief aid or transport home, but through the ...

KHOSRAVI, Iran, April 1 (UNHCR) - In a border region littered with the debris of past conflicts, poles to carry electricity rise above gravel fields flattened by Iranian bulldozers in preparation for ...

On Friday, June 13, when Israeli missiles began raining down on Tehran, Shamsi was reminded once again just how vulnerable she and her family are. The 34-year-old Afghan mother of two was working at ...

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Kabul: Over 30,000 Afghan refugees returned home from Iran through the Islam Qala border crossing in western Herat, marking one of the largest mass returns recently, according to a local official.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Ali Tarokh and his American wife read to their 2-year-old daughter in both English and Farsi. Tarokh is an Iranian refugee who came to Chicago 12 years ago after being imprisoned in ...

This summer, the Islam-Qala border crossing between Iran’s Razavi Khorasan province and Afghanistan’s Herat province has presented a bleak scene as the Iranian regime has violently expelled Afghans ...

Forced back from Iran and Pakistan, thousands of Afghan families are searching for homes they can no longer afford. With ...

At least 71 people, including 17 children, have been killed in western Afghanistan after a bus carrying refugees deported from Iran burst into flames following a collision with a fuel truck. The ...

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