The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says the government of Japan has provided two million US dollars to support emergency assistance for Afghans returning from Iran and Pakistan, as well as vulnerable host communities across Afghanistan.

Hundreds of Afghan migrants with legal documents are returning home from Iran each day through the Islam Qala crossing in western Herat province as tensions escalate between the neighbouring country and Israel, returnees and border officials say.

Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has signed a preferential trade agreement with Afghanistan, a media report said on Wednesday.

Afghan mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Farid Basharat has been ranked 15th in the latest rankings of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)

As many as 68,000 children have been displaced in eastern Afghanistan following an escalation in armed clashes with Pakistan, Save the Children reports.

One man has been killed and two others have been wounded in an unexploded ordnance blast in Surkhrod district of eastern Nangarhar province, police said on Wednesday.

Security forces have arrested a man on suspicion of killing his wife in western Farah province, police said on Tuesday.

The white-ball cricket series between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, scheduled for March in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has been postponed.

US President Donald Trump has said the war with Iran will end “very soon”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a telephone conversation with his US counterpart Donald Trump, TASS reported.

At least 42 people have been killed as a result of heavy flash floods in Kenya, a media report said on Monday.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has said efforts by the United States to transform Afghan society into a Western-style democracy were unlikely to succeed from the outset.