カテゴリー: Turkey
Ministers from Muslim-majority nations to travel to Kabul to discuss ban on girls going to secondary schoolForeign ministers from several Muslim-majority countries are planning to go to Kabul in part to urge the Taliban to recognise that the exclusion …
Western G7 powers are meeting Turkey, Qatar and Nato in Doha to discuss how Kabul airport could be reopenedAfghanistan – live updatesTalks are due in Doha and New York to try to reach an international consensus on the conditions for recognising the Tal…
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Athens calls for a united response, as refugees already in Lesbos hope their asylum claims will now be reconsideredGreek officials have said that Greece will not become a “gateway” to Europe for Afghan asylum seekers and have called for a united respon…
By the end of the year, authorities plan to add another 64km to a border wall intended to stop refugees arriving on their way to westAfghans who manage to make the weeks-long journey through Iran on foot to the Turkish border face a three-metre high w…
Surveillance system also installed at fence bordering Turkey as Greek ministers vow to turn back refugeesGreece said it has completed a 25-mile (40km) wall on its border with Turkey and installed a new surveillance system to prevent possible asylum see…
Soldiers to arrive within 48 hours to provide security and support for US embassy personnel in KabulUS and other western military planners are accelerating plans for the evacuation of embassy staff in Afghanistan as Kabul is increasingly threatened by …
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Jacinda Ardern said it was the ‘right step’ to allow return of woman and her children from TurkeyNew Zealand has agreed that a suspected member of Islamic State who grew up in Australia can be repatriated from Turkey along with her two young children, …
Some pay smugglers to take them to Istanbul as withdrawal of US troops rekindles fears of civil warTwenty-eight days into their journey out of Afghanistan, a woman and her five children are sitting in the shade near a bus station in Tatvan, a town on t…
Family of 16 had hoped to claim asylum in Russia, as thousands flee Afghanistan after troops withdrawalSixteen members of an Afghan family who fled Taliban death threats have been trapped in Istanbul airport for the past two weeks, and thousands more r…
Iranian foreign minister meets Taliban negotiators in Tehran, while Turkey offers troops to protect Kabul airportIran, Turkey, Pakistan and Russia have moved to fill the military and diplomatic vacuum opening up in Afghanistan as a result of the depart…
In One Thousand Dreams, award-winning photographer Robin Hammond hands the camera to refugees. Often reduced by the media’s toxic or well-meaning narratives, the portraits and interviews capture a different and more complex tale‘Never stop dreaming’: r…
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