Trump sets lowest refugee cap in U.S. history, allocating 7,500 spots, mostly for Afrikaners

The Trump administration on Thursday announced it would set the lowest refugee admissions cap in U.S. history at 7,500 spots.

Some 4 years after fleeing Afghanistan, a group of refugees returns to international competition

Some four years after players from the Afghanistan women’s national team fled their homeland amid the Taliban’s takeover, a ...
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Pakistan and Afghanistan to resume talks in Istanbul after dialogue deadlock, officials say

Pakistan and Afghanistan are expected to resume peace talks in Istanbul to revive a dialogue that collapsed earlier this week, ...
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One family fled Afghanistan. Then US deportations scattered them across the world

They were sent with 400 other people fleeing war and repression in Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, China and Sudan, and were among ...

FIFA tournament featuring Afghan women's refugee team relocated to Morocco from UAE

A FIFA-organised tournament involving the Afghanistan women's refugee team has been moved from the United Arab Emirates to ...
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He fought the Taliban for years. Now in Wisconsin, he hopes to reunite with his family

Durani, an Afghan immigrant who served alongside the United States military as a high-ranking member of the Afghan Air Force, tends to surplus bedding in a bedroom of his Milwaukee. Durani wishes his ...
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Earthquake destroys villages in eastern Afghanistan and kills 800 people, with 2,500 injured

KABUL, Afghanistan — Desperate Afghans clawed through rubble in search of missing loved ones after a strong earthquake killed some 800 people and injured more than 2,500 in eastern Afghanistan, ...
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Afghan refugee living in New Paltz detained by ICE at hearing

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — A 31-year-old New Paltz man was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers after attending a political asylum hearing at a federal court on Long Island, ...
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ICE arrests Afghan refugee living in New Paltz after asylum interview

OYSTER BAY — An Afghan refugee who resettled with his family in Ulster County more than three years ago was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after a routine asylum interview ...
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UNHCR expresses concern over the denotification of Refugee Villages and forced returns of Afghan refugees

ISLAMABAD, 8 October 2025: During the week of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)’s Executive Committee in Geneva, the agency has expressed concern over the government’s decision to de-notify some Refugee ...
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UN refugee agency chief suggests that US deportation practices violate the law

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the U.N. refugee agency suggested Monday that President Donald Trump’s America has carried out deportation practices that violate international law, and criticized a wider ...
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Afghans awaited U.S. resettlement. Pakistan sent them back to the Taliban.

For Mursal, the nightmares began in late January. That’s when the 28-year-old Afghan woman learned that President Donald Trump, in one of his first acts back in office, had suspended all refugee ...