More than 14,000 at risk persons from Afghanistan have been waiting for months to leave the country for Germany despite promises of admission, according to a media report. Germany's Foreign Office has vowed to resume the admission program quickly.
An initial group of nine Afghan refugees landed in Rome on Tuesday through a new 'work corridors' pilot project involving the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI).
Abdullah Sediqi was once a taekwondo star in Afghanistan, but had to leave his country following several physical attacks in 2017. With the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris approaching, he hopes to win a medal.
Young refugees and asylum seekers in Germany are more likely to be accepted and find friends at school if their classmates also come from diverse backgrounds, a study has found.
Sport is strictly forbidden for women in Afghanistan, so hundreds fled into exile. Now they are demanding a direct line to the IOC with hopes of competing at the Paris Games in 2024. What are their chances?
A French court has sentenced four Afghans to prison and given lesser penalties to five others for smuggling migrants across the Channel to Britain on dinghies in 2021.
After the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 2021, former Afghanistan Women Football Federation president Arezo Rahimi left for Spain, where she remains dedicated to the sport. Despite many challenges in her new life, Rahimi continues to shine a light on refugees and women's football.
A woman has died after being shot by police in North Macedonia as they were trying to arrest a suspected people smuggler. The incident came as the EU border agency Frontex began a joint operation on the North Macedonian-Greek border.
In August 2021, when the US hurriedly pulled out of Afghanistan, it organised an airlift to evacuate those who had worked with NATO forces and found themselves threatened by the Taliban. These evacuations became chaotic and not everyone made it out.
The refugee charity Pro Asyl has called on the German government to change its admission program for Afghans in need of protection. It criticized the fact that not a single person has been admitted to Germany through the program's channels since its inception last fall.
A new report published by the Biden administration concludes that the chaotic exit from Kabul is due to a lack of planning by the previous White House following the withdrawal plan Trump had agreed upon with the Taliban.
A man stabbed two women to death and left several wounded at an Ismaili Muslim center in the Portuguese capital, the prime minister said.