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href="/a/pakistan-afghanistan-refugee-deportation-mardan-deadline-business-economy-taliban/33373895.html" class="img-wrap img-wrap--m img-wrap--block-mob img-wrap--t-spac img-wrap--size-3 img-wrap--float" title="Masses Of Afghans Being Deported From Pakistan Face Angst And Uncertainty"> <div class="thumb thumb16_9"> <noscript class="nojs-img"> <img src="https://gdb.rferl.org/5f7fb150-affa-4917-004a-08dd5c87a9b7_cx19_cy12_cw71_w100_r1.jpg" alt="Masses Of Afghans Being Deported From Pakistan Face Angst And Uncertainty2 GRAB" /> </noscript> <img data-src="https://gdb.rferl.org/5f7fb150-affa-4917-004a-08dd5c87a9b7_cx19_cy12_cw71_w66_r1.jpg" src="" alt="Masses Of Afghans Being Deported From Pakistan Face Angst And Uncertainty2 GRAB" class=""/> </div> <span class="ico ico-video ico--media-type"></span> </a> <div class="media-block__content media-block__content--h-m media-block__content--full-mob media-block__content--h"> <span class="date date--mb date--size-3 date--mb-25" >April 07, 2025</span> <a href="/a/pakistan-afghanistan-refugee-deportation-mardan-deadline-business-economy-taliban/33373895.html"> <h4 class="media-block__title media-block__title--size-3 media-block__title--25" title="Masses Of Afghans Being Deported From Pakistan Face Angst And Uncertainty"> Masses Of Afghans Being Deported From Pakistan Face Angst And Uncertainty </h4> <p class="perex perex--mb perex--size-3">With Pakistan enforcing a deportation deadline that passed on March 31, hundreds of thousands of Afghans who fled the Taliban's takeover in 2021 now face an uncertain future. Other Afghans have lived in Pakistan's Mardan camp for generations, and many have never lived in Afghanistan. </p> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li class="mb-grid archive-list__item"> <div class="media-block media-block--t-spac media-block--contain"> <a href="/a/afghanistan-kandahar-hospital-hunger-children-malnutrition-us-aid-taliban-red-cross/33313756.html" class="img-wrap img-wrap--m img-wrap--block-mob img-wrap--t-spac img-wrap--size-3 img-wrap--float" title="Doctors Swamped With Malnourished Children At Afghan Hospital"> <div class="thumb thumb16_9"> <noscript class="nojs-img"> <img src="https://gdb.rferl.org/e1879f12-14cf-4794-a36d-08dd4a814ce6_w100_r1.jpg" alt="Afghan Hunger GRAB" /> </noscript> <img data-src="https://gdb.rferl.org/e1879f12-14cf-4794-a36d-08dd4a814ce6_w66_r1.jpg" src="" alt="Afghan Hunger GRAB" class=""/> </div> <span class="ico ico-video ico--media-type"></span> </a> <div class="media-block__content media-block__content--h-m media-block__content--full-mob media-block__content--h"> <span class="date date--mb date--size-3 date--mb-25" >March 03, 2025</span> <a href="/a/afghanistan-kandahar-hospital-hunger-children-malnutrition-us-aid-taliban-red-cross/33313756.html"> <h4 class="media-block__title media-block__title--size-3 media-block__title--25" title="Doctors Swamped With Malnourished Children At Afghan Hospital"> Doctors Swamped With Malnourished Children At Afghan Hospital </h4> <p class="perex perex--mb perex--size-3">Doctors at a hospital in the Afghan city of Kandahar say they've admitted 5,500 malnourished children in the last six months alone. Nearly 3 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from malnutrition, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. </p> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li class="mb-grid archive-list__item"> <div class="media-block media-block--t-spac media-block--contain"> <a href="/a/afghanistan-taliban-trump-us-president-order-refugees-immigration-family-resettlement-america/33283881.html" class="img-wrap img-wrap--m img-wrap--block-mob img-wrap--t-spac img-wrap--size-3 img-wrap--float" title="Afghans Cleared For U.S. Evacuation Fear Trump Reversal Could Allow Taliban To 'Kill Us'"> <div class="thumb thumb16_9"> <noscript class="nojs-img"> <img src="https://gdb.rferl.org/ea3d0fce-e08d-425f-9d1a-a24e6b1faf9c_cx9_cy5_cw90_w100_r1.jpg" alt="Afghans2GRAB" /> </noscript> <img data-src="https://gdb.rferl.org/ea3d0fce-e08d-425f-9d1a-a24e6b1faf9c_cx9_cy5_cw90_w66_r1.jpg" src="" alt="Afghans2GRAB" class=""/> </div> <span class="ico ico-video ico--media-type"></span> </a> <div class="media-block__content media-block__content--h-m media-block__content--full-mob media-block__content--h"> <span class="date date--mb date--size-3 date--mb-25" >January 21, 2025</span> <a href="/a/afghanistan-taliban-trump-us-president-order-refugees-immigration-family-resettlement-america/33283881.html"> <h4 class="media-block__title media-block__title--size-3 media-block__title--25" title="Afghans Cleared For U.S. Evacuation Fear Trump Reversal Could Allow Taliban To 'Kill Us'"> Afghans Cleared For U.S. Evacuation Fear Trump Reversal Could Allow Taliban To 'Kill Us' </h4> <p class="perex perex--mb perex--size-3">Afghans cleared for resettlement in the United States are fearful that an executive order signed by President Donald Trump will put them at grave risk. Some 1,660 Afghan refugees have been pulled from scheduled flights, according to an aid organization. </p> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li class="mb-grid archive-list__item"> <div class="media-block media-block--t-spac media-block--contain"> <a href="/a/afghanistan-taliban-organ-transplant-ban/33244623.html" class="img-wrap img-wrap--m img-wrap--block-mob img-wrap--t-spac img-wrap--size-3 img-wrap--float" title="Taliban's Ban On Organ Transplants Deprives Afghans Of Lifesaving Treatment"> <div class="thumb thumb16_9"> <noscript class="nojs-img"> <img src="https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-0aff-0242-16a9-08db41840e4a_cx12_cy15_cw85_w100_r1.jpg" alt="In Afghanistan, widespread poverty has fueled an illegal organ trade, especially for kidneys. (file photo)" /> </noscript> <img data-src="https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-0aff-0242-16a9-08db41840e4a_cx12_cy15_cw85_w66_r1.jpg" src="" alt="In Afghanistan, widespread poverty has fueled an illegal organ trade, especially for kidneys. (file photo)" class=""/> </div> </a> <div class="media-block__content media-block__content--h-m media-block__content--full-mob media-block__content--h"> <span class="date date--mb date--size-3 date--mb-25" >December 20, 2024</span> <a href="/a/afghanistan-taliban-organ-transplant-ban/33244623.html"> <h4 class="media-block__title media-block__title--size-3 media-block__title--25" title="Taliban's Ban On Organ Transplants Deprives Afghans Of Lifesaving Treatment"> Taliban's Ban On Organ Transplants Deprives Afghans Of Lifesaving Treatment </h4> <p class="perex perex--mb perex--size-3">The Taliban government has imposed a complete ban on organ transplants. Patients and doctors say the prohibition deprives Afghans from accessing potentially lifesaving treatment.</p> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li class="mb-grid archive-list__item"> <div class="media-block media-block--t-spac media-block--contain"> <a href="/a/afghanistan-iran-afghan-prisoners-executions-taliban/33212017.html" class="img-wrap img-wrap--m img-wrap--block-mob img-wrap--t-spac img-wrap--size-3 img-wrap--float" title="The Azadi Briefing: Iran To Deport Afghan Prisoners "> <div class="thumb thumb16_9"> <noscript class="nojs-img"> <img src="https://gdb.rferl.org/CF4D0C73-C7FB-4418-A58D-8381698D6278_w100_r1.jpg" alt="Iranian officials hand over Afghan prisoners to officials in the western province of Herat, which borders Iran. (file photo)" /> </noscript> <img data-src="https://gdb.rferl.org/CF4D0C73-C7FB-4418-A58D-8381698D6278_w66_r1.jpg" src="" alt="Iranian officials hand over Afghan prisoners to officials in the western province of Herat, which borders Iran. (file photo)" class=""/> </div> </a> <div class="media-block__content media-block__content--h-m media-block__content--full-mob media-block__content--h"> <span class="date date--mb date--size-3 date--mb-25" >November 22, 2024</span> <a href="/a/afghanistan-iran-afghan-prisoners-executions-taliban/33212017.html"> <h4 class="media-block__title media-block__title--size-3 media-block__title--25" title="The Azadi Briefing: Iran To Deport Afghan Prisoners "> The Azadi Briefing: Iran To Deport Afghan Prisoners </h4> <p class="perex perex--mb perex--size-3">Iran is talking to the Taliban to hand over some 1,000 Afghans convicted on drug charges. The Taliban wants Tehran to deport all Afghan convicts amid a sharp rise in executions in Iran.</p> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li class="mb-grid archive-list__item"> <div class="media-block media-block--t-spac media-block--contain"> <a href="/a/afghanistan-cop29-climate-change-taliban/33203575.html" class="img-wrap img-wrap--m img-wrap--no-mob img-wrap--t-spac img-wrap--size-3 img-wrap--float" title="COP29 Highlights Afghanistan's Climate Woes"> <div class="thumb thumb16_9"> <noscript class="nojs-img"> <img src="https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-0a00-0242-4be2-08dc7423f5ee_cx0_cy8_cw0_w100_r1.jpg" alt="A man affected by floods sits next to a prayer mat as he waits for relief in the village of Borka in Baghlan Province in May." /> </noscript> <img data-src="https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-0a00-0242-4be2-08dc7423f5ee_cx0_cy8_cw0_w66_r1.jpg" src="" alt="A man affected by floods sits next to a prayer mat as he waits for relief in the village of Borka in Baghlan Province in May." class=""/> </div> </a> <div class="media-block__content media-block__content--h-m media-block__content--full-mob media-block__content--h"> <span class="date date--mb date--size-3 date--mb-25" >November 15, 2024</span> <a href="/a/afghanistan-cop29-climate-change-taliban/33203575.html"> <h4 class="media-block__title media-block__title--size-3 media-block__title--25" title="COP29 Highlights Afghanistan's Climate Woes"> COP29 Highlights Afghanistan's Climate Woes </h4> <p class="perex perex--mb perex--size-3">Afghanistan is one of the world鈥檚 leading victims of climate change. But can its Taliban government cooperate with the international community to mitigate the crisis?</p> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li class="mb-grid archive-list__item"> <div class="media-block media-block--t-spac media-block--contain"> <a href="/a/afghanistan-women-hunger-crisis-humanitarian/33170461.html" class="img-wrap img-wrap--m img-wrap--no-mob img-wrap--t-spac img-wrap--size-3 img-wrap--float" title="This Afghan Family Is Surviving On Leftovers From Neighbors"> <div class="thumb thumb16_9"> <noscript class="nojs-img"> <img src="https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-0a00-0242-b690-08db31f50b70_cx0_cy5_cw0_w100_r1.jpg" alt="An Afghan boy and women beg outside a mosque in Kabul." /> </noscript> <img data-src="https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-0a00-0242-b690-08db31f50b70_cx0_cy5_cw0_w66_r1.jpg" src="" alt="An Afghan boy and women beg outside a mosque in Kabul." class=""/> </div> </a> <div class="media-block__content media-block__content--h-m media-block__content--full-mob media-block__content--h"> <span class="date date--mb date--size-3 date--mb-25" >October 29, 2024</span> <a href="/a/afghanistan-women-hunger-crisis-humanitarian/33170461.html"> <h4 class="media-block__title media-block__title--size-3 media-block__title--25" title="This Afghan Family Is Surviving On Leftovers From Neighbors"> This Afghan Family Is Surviving On Leftovers From Neighbors </h4> <p class="perex perex--mb perex--size-3">Gul Hotak and her family survive on just one meal per day -- often leftovers from neighbors. They are among the millions of people in Afghanistan, the world鈥檚 largest humanitarian crisis, who are going hungry.</p> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li class="mb-grid archive-list__item"> <div class="media-block media-block--t-spac media-block--contain"> <a href="/a/afghanistan-iran-migrants-refugees-malnutrition/33163798.html" class="img-wrap img-wrap--m img-wrap--no-mob img-wrap--t-spac img-wrap--size-3 img-wrap--float" title="The Azadi Briefing: Calls For Probe Into Reported Killing Of Afghan Migrants On Iran Border"> <div class="thumb thumb16_9"> <noscript class="nojs-img"> <img src="https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-c0a8-0242-0cf1-08dbdf9816e7_cx0_cy6_cw0_w100_r1.jpg" alt="Afghan immigrants deported back from Iran carry their belongings at a registration center in the Islam Qala border town of the western Herat Province. (file photo)" /> </noscript> <img data-src="https://gdb.rferl.org/01000000-c0a8-0242-0cf1-08dbdf9816e7_cx0_cy6_cw0_w66_r1.jpg" src="" alt="Afghan immigrants deported back from Iran carry their belongings at a registration center in the Islam Qala border town of the western Herat Province. (file photo)" class=""/> </div> </a> <div class="media-block__content media-block__content--h-m media-block__content--full-mob media-block__content--h"> <span class="date date--mb date--size-3 date--mb-25" >October 18, 2024</span> <a href="/a/afghanistan-iran-migrants-refugees-malnutrition/33163798.html"> <h4 class="media-block__title media-block__title--size-3 media-block__title--25" title="The Azadi Briefing: Calls For Probe Into Reported Killing Of Afghan Migrants On Iran Border"> The Azadi Briefing: Calls For Probe Into Reported Killing Of Afghan Migrants On Iran Border </h4> <p class="perex perex--mb perex--size-3">Iranian border guards fired on and killed Afghan migrants seeking to cross into Iran from Pakistan, according to local reports and rights groups. </p> </a> </div> </div> </li> <li class="mb-grid archive-list__item"> <div class="media-block media-block--t-spac media-block--contain"> <a href="/a/afghanistan-flood-windstorm-displaced-humanitarian-crisis-taliban/33159838.html" class="img-wrap img-wrap--m img-wrap--no-mob img-wrap--t-spac img-wrap--size-3 img-wrap--float" title="After Fleeing Floods, Afghans See Tents 'Torn To Pieces' By Windstorms"> <div class="thumb thumb16_9"> <noscript class="nojs-img"> <img src="https://gdb.rferl.org/74693909-ecb4-439a-a70a-db172d8ae564_cx1_cy3_cw83_w100_r1.jpg" alt="Afghan Tent CityGRAB" /> </noscript> <img data-src="https://gdb.rferl.org/74693909-ecb4-439a-a70a-db172d8ae564_cx1_cy3_cw83_w66_r1.jpg" src="" alt="Afghan Tent CityGRAB" class=""/> </div> <span class="ico ico-video ico--media-type"></span> </a> <div class="media-block__content media-block__content--h-m media-block__content--full-mob media-block__content--h"> <span class="date date--mb date--size-3 date--mb-25" >October 17, 2024</span> <a href="/a/afghanistan-flood-windstorm-displaced-humanitarian-crisis-taliban/33159838.html"> <h4 class="media-block__title media-block__title--size-3 media-block__title--25" title="After Fleeing Floods, Afghans See Tents 'Torn To Pieces' By Windstorms"> After Fleeing Floods, Afghans See Tents 'Torn To Pieces' By Windstorms </h4> <p class="perex perex--mb perex--size-3">Severe winds in Afghanistan's central Ghor Province have destroyed a tent settlement where hundreds of flood victims were temporarily sheltered. Their original homes were swept away in the summer by torrential rains. 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