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The government of Pakistan has decided to deport about one million Afghan refugees who do not have legal residency documents. Pakistani media have reported that the caretaker cabinet of this country approved this decision on Tuesday, September 26. According to…

At least eight people were killed, including children and women, and four others were injured on Wednesday when a live mortar shell exploded in the southeastern Sindh province of Pakistan. The incident occurred in the Katcha area of Kandhkot district,…

At least 113 people have been killed and more than 150 injured in a fire that engulfed a wedding celebration in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province, local officials and emergency services said. Fireworks, candles, and other materials used during the event…

In a recent update, the World Health Organization reported that, in the past year, the recorded cases of cholera have more than doubled in the world, rising from 220,000 to 470,000. The WHO figures show that Afghanistan has the highest…

A recently published report by the United Nations has registered 1,600 cases of human rights violations in Taliban detention centers. According to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), these human rights violations were recorded in 29 provinces from…

The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) had to cut rations to another 2 million Afghans this month and is warning of a “catastrophic” winter if funding runs out with little food for remote communities in place, the agency’s country director…

Hundreds of women in Afghanistan believe that the United Nations should not recognize the Taliban government until women’s access to work and education is restored, according to a new survey reported by VOA. About 46% of the 592 Afghan women…

At least six people have been killed in a suspected drone attack on an airport near the city of Sulaymaniyah in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, Al Jazeera reported today, September, 19. The incident took place at the…

Two years after the Taliban’s decision to deprive girls above the sixth grade from the right to education in Afghanistan, international human rights organizations, including the United Nations, have called for the reopening of schools for girls in this country.…

Shia Muslims in the Pakistani city of Karachi called on Monday for the arrest of the extremist preacher Maulawi Mansour Manjaal, following statements he made against the followers of Ahlulbayt, peace be upon them. According to news outlets followed by…