KABUL — After decades hosting Afghans fleeing crises at home, Pakistan and Iran have ramped up deportations and forced millions back across the border to a country struggling to provide for them.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Afghanistan's neighbors met in Iran and agreed to deepen regional coordination to address political, economic and security challenges, as well as calling for sanctions on ...

The most worrisome flash point in South Asia today lies not between the nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan but to the west, along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. A simmering conflict ...

More than 5.2 million people returned to Afghanistan from Iran and Pakistan in 2025, worsening humanitarian pressures, aid ...

TEHRAN, Iran -- Afghanistan's neighbors met in Iran and agreed to deepen regional coordination to address political, economic and security challenges, as well as calling for sanctions on Afghanistan ...

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Afghanistan occupies a central position in Tehran’s changing playbook, as the country is both a risk and a buffer for Iran. The recent cross-border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan have once ...

QUETTA, Jan. 17 -- Iran has described Pakistan position at the United Nations (UN) as "very encouraging", amid Tehran's efforts to counter what it sees as external pressure and mischaracterisation of ...

GENEVA, April 12 (UNHCR) - High Commissioner Ruud Lubbers left today on an eight-day mission to Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan for a first-hand look at the UN refugee agency's largest current ...