After the June war between Israel and Iran, Iran expelled hundreds of thousands of Afghans—threatening stability and ...

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A rapidly intensifying refugee crisis is playing out along Iran’s border with Afghanistan. More than 700,000 Afghans returned to Afghanistan from Iran during the first six months of the year, ...

Afghanistan features on this year’s Emergency Watchlist as some 23.7 million people—just over half of the population—urgently need humanitarian support. The crisis in Afghanistan largely stems from ...

The Afghanistan Journalists Support Organization has warned of "dire" and "disastrous" conditions facing Afghan journalists ...

According to U.N. sources, the humanitarian aid system in Afghanistan is already desperately overstretched and underfunded, with over 29 million Afghans in need of assistance.

December 15, 2021. Afghanistan tops 2022 crisis list. The IRC’s Emergency Watchlist, released today, ranks Afghanistan as the country most at risk of worsening humanitarian crisis in 2022. Amid ...

The reported decrease in humanitarian needs has led to a significant reduction in the U.N.-led Afghanistan appeal, from $4.6 billion in 2023 to $3.07 billion this year. Aid agencies, however, warn ...

As Afghanistan's humanitarian crisis deepens, its young people step up. Afghans are giving food to the hungry, clothes to the needy, and medical care to the sick: ‘I just wish I could work at ...

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is warning Afghanistan continues to face the largest humanitarian crisis in the world today. He made the comment earlier this week during a two-day U.N ...

That leaves humanitarian assistance to mitigate the disaster. But it does not offer Afghanistan a real pathway out of this crisis. “It will save lives for today,” said Sayed Hameed Sadaat, who ...

The Red Cross said in an interview with Reuters on Friday the Afghan humanitarian crisis is too big for aid groups to handle alone. “Humanitarian organisations joining forces can only do so much.