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Abdul Hadi Farhang, founder of Afghanistan Traders and Investors, told VOA that the Taliban’s restrictions and Afghanistan’s ...

A Syrian Kurdish leader says efforts to integrate their autonomous administration and military forces into the Syrian state ...

Once a symbol of economic cooperation between the two Koreas, the Kaesong Industrial Complex brought together South Korean ...

With the recently concluded U.S.-China summit still top of mind, Alexander Yui, representative of the Taipei Economic and ...

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees, in a statement last week, said some 492,300 Afghans have been deported from ...

Iran and Iran-backed Shiite militias in Iraq have intensified their surveillance and security activities in the Kurdistan ...

Under the new rates, the Central Bank will purchase U.S. dollars from the Ministry of Finance at 1,500 dinars per dollar and ...

The United States says the Taliban government in Afghanistan does not ‘fully’ meet the minimum standards for combating human ...

The number of politically motivated prosecutions in Russia involving restrictions on freedom of association increased by 50% in the first nine months of 2026, according to a new report by the Support ...

The world marked International Teachers’ Day on Monday, while Afghan girls remain barred from attending school beyond sixth ...

Editor's note: this story was translated from the original VOA Kurdi article. Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein says the ...