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 ...

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

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

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

Weeks after he was forced to return from Iran, Mohammad Mohsen Zaryab was still searching for somewhere to live in Kabul, where rental prices have soared along with an influx ...

Iran’s and Pakistan’s mass deportations of Afghan refugees reflect a global trend toward forced expulsions and anti-migrant ...

The UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) recently estimated that up to three million people could return to Afghanistan ...

Simple: by doing it while the world is fixated on Israel and Gaza. The humanitarian crisis Iran is perpetrating, to be clear, does not erase or excuse Israel’s actions in Gaza, or Hamas’.

Expulsions and crackdowns on asylum-seekers are growing more common as the international norm against refoulment breaks down. The post The Global Refugee System As We Know It Is Over appeared first on ...

Simple, by doing it while the world is fixated on Israel and Gaza. The humanitarian crisis Iran is perpetrating, to be clear, does not erase or excuse Israel’s actions in Gaza, or Hamas’s.

After the June war between Israel and Iran, Iran expelled hundreds of thousands of Afghans—threatening stability and worsening Afghanistan's humanitarian crisis.

An asylum seeker who claimed to be Iranian has won a reprieve to stay in the UK by maintaining he is actually Afghan.