Some 11 members of the Afghan boxing team and their coach are in Serbia, seeking refuge in the EU. They remained there after the end of a World Boxing Championship in early November and say they could face retribution if they return home.
German police found 16 migrants, mostly minors, in an articulated lorry in the southern state of Middle Franken (Bavaria) on Saturday, November 13. The migrants are believed to be from Afghanistan.
The numbers of Afghan migrants turning to smugglers in border towns like Zaranj is anecdotally increasing dramatically. A recent BBC report from there found many of those fleeing had worked for the government or had other middle-class jobs.
Turkish authorities detained 164 migrants and refugees – most of them Afghans – after they irregularly crossed the border with Iran between Monday and Tuesday. Turkey has repeatedly signalled that it is does not want to host more Afghan refugees.
The Murat 729, carrying 400 mostly Afghan migrants and refugees, sent a distress signal after its engines failed. Turkey failed to respond to a request to take back the vessel, despite a 2016 EU deal worth billions.
Eighteen people from Afghanistan and Romania have been arrested in a major cross-border police operation. The men are suspected of smuggling mostly Afghan migrants in lorries from Romania into Germany.
Hundreds of thousands of people forced to flee their homes in Afghanistan have remained in the country. Those who are sleeping in tents in a Kabul park are calling on the international community to send aid urgently.
Polish border guards have begun to send text messages to migrants who are trying to cross from Belarus to Poland. In the text, they warn migrants that the border is closed and they should return to Minsk. Migrants have also been in touch with Polish NGOs, pleading with Poland to "have mercy" and take them in.
The University of Florence has launched a fundraising program to help provide support to its Afghan students and to increase research activities.
As Western forces withdrew from Afghanistan in August, thousands of Afghans waited at the airport in the hope of being evacuated with them. Some succeeded while others died in the attempt. Now the families of two of the deceased remember their loved ones and the desperation that pushed them to run alongside an American cargo plane as it took off from Kabul.
Lithuania has expelled five Afghan nationals back to neighboring Belarus in spite of an order by the European Court of Human Rights that they be allowed to stay.
Since the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban on August 15, InfoMigrants has received a large number of messages from Afghans who are still trapped in the country and feel under threat.