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European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) · July 10, 2025

Austria has deported a Syrian national to Syria for the first time since the start of the civil war in 2011. Germany has announced that it will also begin deporting Syrians with criminal records. A court in Berlin has ruled that the German...

Local Afghan tour company invites Americans to vacation in country

MENAFN · July 12, 2025

(MENAFN) A local Afghan tour company has released an unusual promotional video inviting American tourists to visit Afghanistan, which quickly gained viral attention. The 50-second clip begins with a staged hostage scene reminiscent of Taliban...

Afghan Returnees Face Resource Shortages

MENAFN · July 8, 2025

(MENAFN) With increasing numbers of Afghans returning from neighboring nations, humanitarian organizations are sounding the alarm about a growing emergency characterized by scarce resources, protection concerns, and unclear reintegration...

Russia recognizes Taliban government in Afghanistan

MENAFN · July 9, 2025

(MENAFN) Russia has officially recognized the Taliban government in Afghanistan, marking a major geopolitical shift and making it the first major global power to formally engage with the Islamic Emirate since the Taliban seized control in 2021. On...

Afghanistan’s Flash Floods Claim Lives of Two Children

MENAFN · July 6, 2025

(MENAFN) Torrential rainfall triggered catastrophic flash floods in parts of eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, claiming the lives of two children and leaving widespread destruction, a local official reported on Sunday. The floods impacted...

Trading with dictators? A historical review of the EU’s business partners

ECB - European Central Bank · July 8, 2025

8 July 2025 By Claudia Marchini and Alexander Popov Over the last 25 years the EU’s trading partners have become less and less democratic. The ECB Blog investigates the background of this development and the dynamics at play. Do democratic values...

Nearly 450,000 Afghans Head Back Home from Iran

MENAFN · July 7, 2025

(MENAFN) In just over a month, almost half a million Afghan migrants have been repatriated from Iran, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) confirmed to media on Monday. This surge precedes Tehran’s firm deadline requiring...

Deadly Crash Claims Three Lives in Afghanistan

MENAFN · July 6, 2025

(MENAFN) At least three people have died, and seven others sustained injuries after their vehicle crashed and flipped over in eastern Afghanistan's Panjshir province, according to media on Sunday. The incident occurred when a mini-bus, reportedly...

Torrential Floods Hit Eastern Afghanistan

MENAFN · July 6, 2025

(MENAFN) Severe flooding overwhelmed eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province on Sunday, claiming the lives of at least two children and laying waste to numerous homes, as reported by local media. Citing information from the Nangarhar Provincial...

Creating Sustainable Solutions through Conflict Deconstruction: Mariya Asagi

UN International Training and Research Center · July 4, 2025

While in Afghanistan and Myanmar, Mariya felt the limitations of working without a thorough understanding of the deconstruction phase of conflict, which encompasses social reintegration, physical reconstruction, and institution-building. As an aid...

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US court briefly pauses Trump’s move to end protective status for Afghans

St. Kitts Gazette · July 15, 2025

An appeals court has briefly extended temporary protected status (TPS) for nearly 12,000 Afghans in the United States, hours before it was to expire. Monday’s order came 60 days after the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under President...

Homeland Security is removing protections that kept some Afghans from deportation

KTSA - Texas · July 14, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Temporary measures that allowed nearly 12,000 Afghans to work in the U.S. and be protected from deportation are expiring Monday as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to make more people eligible for removal from the...

UK Labour government defence review calls for schools to support “nation’s readiness for war”

World Socialist Web Site · July 13, 2025

The UK Labour government’s Strategic Defence Review (SDR) “Making Britain Safer: secure at home, strong abroad” has broad implications for education. The SDR aims to create new pathways between youth and the armed forces and to develop existing...

With temporary protections for some Afghans set to expire, appeals court steps in

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Georgia ·

CASA appealed the case Monday and won a stay keeping in place the temporary status for Afghans that was set to expire Monday. The appeals court gave no reason for its decision, but indicated it would be deciding what to do swiftly. The stay is in...

Book Review: ‘The Mission’ reveals troubling political meddling in CIA after 9/11

Associated Press · July 14, 2025

The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in this powerful account of the Central Intelligence Agency actions since the 9/11 attacks. The title, “The Mission: The CIA...

US appeals court temporarily upholds protected status for Afghans

WKZO - Michigan ·

By Ismail Shakil and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court has blocked for now a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to strip temporary protected status from thousands of Afghans in the United States, court documents...

“The ‘T’ is there for a reason”

World - North Carolina ·

UPDATE: Late Monday, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the Department of Homeland Security from ending temporary protected status for immigrants from Afghanistan. The status was set to expire at midnight. The court said its order will...

Australia’s multiculturalism lives mostly on the surface. Inclusion without voice is tokenism | Shadi Khan Saif

The Guardian · July 14, 2025

The first thing that hit me when I landed in Melbourne from Kabul wasn’t the city’s famously unpredictable weather but the incredible diversity on the streets and in the food. It was nothing like the Australia I had imagined growing up: a...

7/13/2025 early and often early and often America Would Be Better Off If Trump Won in 2020 By Ed Kilgore Joe Biden’s 2020 win was a Pyrrhic victory for Democrats, and the four-year gap just made Trump’s second term more horrific.

New York Mag · July 13, 2025

What might have been had Trump’s 2020 Election Night victory-claim stuck. Photo: Evan Vucci/AP Photo When Donald Trump’s megabill passed the Senate, consummating nearly a half-year of aggressively reactionary policymaking by the 47th president, a...

Afghan family wins visa battle against German government freeze

Daily Times · July 8, 2025

A German court has ruled that an Afghan family at risk must be issued visas, despite the government freezing its humanitarian admissions programme. The family, currently in Pakistan, was previously accepted under the programme meant for vulnerable...

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Welcome to Afghanistan News Wire

Press Releases

CENTRAL EUROPE: Austria’s first deportation to Syria prompts Germany to follow ― Afghan family wins visa battle against German government ― Germany planning migration summit ― Polish farmers join ‘citizen patrols’ ― Czech MPs adopt draft asylum and mig…

Local Afghan tour company invites Americans to vacation in country

Afghan Returnees Face Resource Shortages

Russia recognizes Taliban government in Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s Flash Floods Claim Lives of Two Children

Trading with dictators? A historical review of the EU’s business partners

Nearly 450,000 Afghans Head Back Home from Iran

Deadly Crash Claims Three Lives in Afghanistan

Torrential Floods Hit Eastern Afghanistan

Creating Sustainable Solutions through Conflict Deconstruction: Mariya Asagi

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US court briefly pauses Trump’s move to end protective status for Afghans

Homeland Security is removing protections that kept some Afghans from deportation

UK Labour government defence review calls for schools to support “nation’s readiness for war”

With temporary protections for some Afghans set to expire, appeals court steps in

Book Review: ‘The Mission’ reveals troubling political meddling in CIA after 9/11

US appeals court temporarily upholds protected status for Afghans

“The ‘T’ is there for a reason”

Australia’s multiculturalism lives mostly on the surface. Inclusion without voice is tokenism | Shadi Khan Saif

7/13/2025 early and often early and often America Would Be Better Off If Trump Won in 2020 By Ed Kilgore Joe Biden’s 2020 win was a Pyrrhic victory for Democrats, and the four-year gap just made Trump’s second term more horrific.

Afghan family wins visa battle against German government freeze

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