For faith leaders supporting and ministering to anxious immigrants across the United States, 2025 was fraught with challenges and setbacks. For many in these religious circles, the coming year could ...

As tensions simmer between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Islamabad is shifting from coercive diplomacy to managed escalation to bring the Taliban to heel. This deterioration is striking, given Islamabad’s ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement summoned Afghans residing in the U.S. to present their documents during the holiday season, marking the latest effort by the Trump administration to crack down ...

After a fatal shooting, the Trump administration froze a visa program for Afghans that Republicans in Congress had championed. The G.O.P. has not objected. By Megan Mineiro and Adam Sella Reporting ...

Magnus Marsden has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The Taliban’s morality police recently summoned four young men in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan for ...

Welcoming Afghan refugees used to be a rare point of unity for Republicans and Democrats. But in the aftermath of a deadly shooting last month, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and his GOP challenger, U.S. Rep.

Beheshta was preparing for finals at Oakton College, where she is studying to become an echocardiographer, when she got a text from her sister in Italy. “Hey, do you know what happened in the United ...

Afghan refugees in the U.S. face re-screening as paths to citizenship stall under Trump. The Idaho Afghan community reports fear and uncertainty as scrutiny rises after shooting. President Trump ...

MADISON, Wis. — After the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington D.C. in November, Afghans in Wisconsin say they feel a wave of uncertainty and fear amid anti-Afghan, xenophobic rhetoric ...

U.S. officials rushed Mohammad Nabi onto a plane out of Afghanistan so quickly in 2021 that he didn’t have time to bring his passport, his wife or his eight children. More than four years later, the ...

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — When local officials decided in early 2021 to recruit refugees to this southeastern Vermont town, they imagined a gradual process. Then came the fall of Kabul. The Taliban’s return ...

More than 190,000 Afghans arrived in the U.S. following the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. Many of them worked as allies to the U.S. and were promised safety in return. Thousands ...