KABUL, Afghanistan, April 29 (UNHCR) - Iranian officials agreed in a meeting with the Afghan government on Wednesday on measures to boost the repatriation of Afghan refugees back to their homeland, ...

TEHRAN, Iran, May 5 (UNHCR) - Afghan refugees in Iran have started receiving a new form of repatriation assistance - not in the form of a cash grant, relief aid or transport home, but through the ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s recent move to formalize access to banking services – including debit cards, for Afghan refugees in the country.

Tehran, Iran – The wave of Afghan refugees and migrants being sent back from Iran has not stopped, with more than 410,000 being pushed out since the end of the 12-day war with Israel on June 24. More ...

On Friday, June 13, when Israeli missiles began raining down on Tehran, Shamsi was reminded once again just how vulnerable she and her family are. The 34-year-old Afghan mother of two was working at ...

This summer, the Islam-Qala border crossing between Iran’s Razavi Khorasan province and Afghanistan’s Herat province has presented a bleak scene as the Iranian regime has violently expelled Afghans ...

While global headlines fixate on Iran’s nuclear program or its regional power plays, another crisis rages just beneath the surface, the oppression of Afghan refugees and ethnic minorities within Iran.

It’s easy to look at what is happening to Afghans living in Iran and conclude that, in our world, some deportations are worse than others; some refugees matter more than others; some hungry people ...

Two more refugees resettled in Cambodia from an Australian detention camp have returned home, the government said Tuesday, sparking renewed criticism about the Aus$55 million (US$40 million) scheme.