The Iranian Ambassador to Afghanistan, Bahadur Aminian, says at least 6,000 Afghan citizens enter Iran every day and that only about half have visas.

The rest enter illegally, he said, adding that these migrants risk falling victim to human traffickers.

Speaking to the BBC Aminian said the only way to reduce the wave of refugees into Iran was to...

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A bus reportedly taking 47 people to COVID-19 quarantine in southwest China crashed in the pre-dawn hours of Sunday morning, killing 27 and injuring 20 others, AP reported.

The bus overturned on an expressway in Guizhou province, a brief statement from the Sandu county police said, without mentioning any connection to quarantine. The injured were...

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A fire swept through a second-hand clothing market in Kabul early Sunday destroying dozens of shops and causing huge financial losses for the shop owners.

Shopkeepers said the fire broke out in a nearby bakery at about 3am on Sunday and rapidly spread through the market, destroying the clothing stores and fruit and vegetable shops.

The exact cause...

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Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology officials and representatives of telecommunication companies met on Saturday to discuss the blocking of access to TikTok and the game, PUBG, in Afghanistan.

The meeting was chaired by Najibullah Haqqani, the Minister of Telecommunications and Technology. Also present at the meeting were...

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Russia&s special envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said the United States is no longer included in the Extended Troika, and instead, Iran will take its place.

In a televised interview with Sputnik last week, Kabulov said the US was using this structure to advance its own interests, and that Washington&s participation in the Extended...

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Local sources in Kunduz province say that the United Nations Children&s Fund (UNICEF) has provided education for more than five thousand children in this province.

Ahmad Shah Haqqani, the head of labor and social affairs for Kunduz, said that after the fall of the former government, UNICEF, in cooperation with the local government,...

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