More than 1.4 million Afghans have been forced out of Iran since January amid a governmental crackdown. Elian Peltier, an international correspondent at The New York Times, reports from the Afghanistan-Iran border. There, he met with Afghans grappling with an uncertain future, as they return to a country with widespread poverty and severe restrictions on … Read more
Russia has become the first country to formally recognize the Taliban’s government in Afghanistan since it seized power in 2021 after Moscow removed the group from its list of outlawed organizations. The Russian Foreign Ministry announced Thursday that it had received credentials from Afghanistan’s newly appointed Ambassador Gul Hassan Hassan. The official recognition of the … Read more
An Afghan man who worked alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan was placed in expedited removal in San Diego on Thursday, according to court documents reviewed by CBS News. Sayed Naser was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers two weeks earlier when he appeared at the San Diego federal courthouse for his mandatory immigration … Read more
The United States offered a $5 million reward Tuesday for information that helps find an Afghan-American national it says was abducted in Kabul in 2022. Mahmood Habibi, who worked for a telecommunications firm, was taken along with his driver and detained by the Taliban government’s intelligence service, the State Department said. U.S.-Afghan national Mahmood Habibi, … Read more