LOUISVILLE, Colo. — Elected officials from both sides of the aisle are urging federal authorities to release an Afghan asylum seeker who says he helped the U.S. military during the war in Afghanistan.

Asylum-seekers speak to a U.S. Border and Customs Protection agent at the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego in May 2023. (File photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) As they walked up to the thick ...

The Taliban has rejected U.S. President Donald Trump‘s demand to hand over Bagram air base, emphasizing Afghanistan’s sovereignty. Newsweek has reached out the U.S. State Department and Afghanistan’s ...

The Trump administration has announced it will stop processing immigration requests by Afghan nationals indefinitely, following the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. last week ...

The Trump administration has been restricting the use of a visa program designed to help Afghans who aided U.S. troops during nearly 20 years of war in Afghanistan. Now, some Afghans who have been ...

Afghan civil society activists and United Nations experts held a meeting in Geneva on Monday focused on justice, ...

The federal government has finally begun construction on a national Afghanistan war memorial in Ottawa, years after a politically charged design dispute nearly derailed the project. The monument will ...

A weekslong war between Pakistan and Afghanistan was paused on March 18, 2026, to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. But that does not mean the conflict is over. Neither side showed any ...

An Afghan national who arrived during the same Biden administration Kabul evacuation effort as the West Virginia National Guard shooting suspect was federally charged Tuesday with planning to attack ...

Afghanistan occupies a central position in Tehran’s changing playbook, as the country is both a risk and a buffer for Iran. The recent cross-border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan have once ...