STORY: Born and raised in Iran, 16-year-old Yaser had never seen Afghanistan before. Now, he is one of more than a million ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. A rapidly intensifying refugee crisis is playing out along Iran’s border with Afghanistan. More than 700,000 Afghans returned to Afghanistan from ...

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates that nearly 4.5 million Afghan nationals currently reside in Iran. Other sources suggest the actual number could be much higher.

The forced return of thousands of Afghan refugees from Iran is intensifying economic hardship and social strain in ...

A U.N. official says the pace and scale of Afghans returning from Iran are overwhelming already fragile support systems.

A U.N. official says reintegrating Afghan refugees is crucial for the country's peaceful future. Since the start of the year, ...

What we are witnessing is not a breakdown of refugee policy, but the continuation – albeit with renewed intensity – of a ...

Emergency aid isn’t enough. Only smart investment in livelihoods and water can stop the crisis from spiralling.

More than a million Afghan refugees have been forced to leave Iran and return to their own country this year. | ITV National News ...

Earlier this year, Iran ordered Afghans living illegally in the country to leave. Since then, the government has labeled them ...

Afghanistan, which shares borders with Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China, is already the world’s second biggest source of refugees, according to the United Nations ...