KHOSRAVI, Iran, April 1 (UNHCR) - In a border region littered with the debris of past conflicts, poles to carry electricity rise above gravel fields flattened by Iranian bulldozers in preparation for ...

AHWAZ, Iran, April 23 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency staff in Iran who have been poised to help possible new Iraqi refugees are all too familiar with the potential problems - after all, they are ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s recent move to formalize access to banking services – including debit cards, for Afghan refugees in the country.

Earlier this month, an Iranian foreign minister traveled to Afghanistan for the first time since the Taliban took power in August 2021. According to Iranian officials, the aim of Abbas Araghchi's ...

STORY: Born and raised in Iran, 16-year-old Yaser had never seen Afghanistan before. Now, he is one of more than a million Afghans deported this year amid rising regional tensions. At a refugee camp ...

Arts-based approaches effectively capture the complex and layered experiences of displaced young people, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. Conducted among Afghan refugee youth ...

At least 71 people, including 17 children, have been killed in western Afghanistan after a bus carrying refugees deported from Iran burst into flames following a collision with a fuel truck. The ...

ISLAMABAD — Reintegrating Afghan refugees is critical to the country’s peaceful future as social cohesion will be reduced without it, a U.N. official said Friday. Some 2.2 million Afghans have crossed ...

At least 79 people were killed when a bus carrying Afghans deported from Iran crashed on one of the country’s most dangerous highways on Tuesday night, the Afghan Interior Ministry said. Officials ...