Both sides emphasized the need for additional time to enable refugees to move their belongings and return voluntarily and with dignity.
Afghanistan’s Islamic Emirate is using force and other measures to divert international aid, block minority communities from receiving assistance, and may be colluding with U.N. officials...
WFP said it has provided emergency food assistance to more than 300,000 returnees at border points, with vital support from donors.
A source familiar with the issue said: "It hasn’t been a serious consideration because it’s not really a serious option at this moment."
UNICEF also appealed to donor countries to increase funding for humanitarian programs supporting returnees, with a focus on women and children.
The sharp rise in detentions and deportations has sparked renewed criticism from rights advocates inside Iran.
Israel's Ambassador to Australia, Amir Maimon, criticised Australia's decision.
“The situation of returnees is critical,” said the IOM Chief of Mission in Afghanistan, who recently visited border entry points.
Currently, around 1.4 million Afghan PoR cardholders remain in Pakistan, OCHA reported.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he did not discuss Britain's plans on Palestinian statehood during talks with Starmer in Scotland on Monday.
In a statement posted Tuesday on X, UNFPA stressed that the funding shortfall puts hard-won gains in reducing maternal mortality at serious risk.
The U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, called the statement "disgusting" and said blaming Israel was "irrational" because Hamas rejects every proposal to end the war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to convene ministers late on Sunday to discuss the latest developments in the talks, an Israeli official said.
The agency warned that a failure to respond quickly and at scale risks triggering widespread displacement, food insecurity, and public health emergencies.
Migrants are being pulled off the streets without notice, loaded onto buses, and abandoned at the Afghan border, Khalilzad said.
President Donald Trump sent his condolences to the victims and said he would probably visit the area on Friday. His administration had been in touch with...
The decision came during a meeting of senior representatives of the international community who met in Brussels on Monday to discuss Afghanistan's food and health crisis
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) expresses concern that the international community has provided only a small budget for the continuation...
Two explosions that killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores at a ceremony in Iran on Wednesday looked like a “terrorist attack” of the kind Daesh...
US President Joe Biden has extended for one more year the national emergency declared in his executive order with respect to the widespread humanitarian crisis in...