LONDON: The young British Afghan lawyer Ruqeia Ahmadi leads the Afghan Council of Great Britain and the World Afghan Congress's legal and women affairs committees. The young and proactive lawyer is part of the council’s leadership to inform strategy, campaigns and programs to put the community’s legal and women’s issues at the forefront of...

As the talk of U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan gains momentum, global players and Afghan power-brokers are looking into new ways of reaching a peace deal with Taliban. Among the regional powers, Russia is stepping in to fill the gap being left behind by U.S. as it prepares to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan.

PARIS: More Afghans than Syrians have fled to the European Union so far this year, official data shows, making them the largest nationality seeking protection from violence in Afghanistan. Since the beginning of the year, nearly 17,000 Afghans have crossed the Aegean sea to reach EU shores, the latest data from the EU border...