TEHRAN, Iran (UNHCR) - As the newly appointed Coalition Provisional Authority begins its work in Iraq, just across the border in Iran, many Iraqi refugees are eagerly monitoring developments in their ...

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 ...

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.

While global headlines fixate on Iran’s nuclear program or its regional power plays, another crisis rages just beneath the surface, the oppression of Afghan refugees and ethnic minorities within Iran.

This summer, the Islam-Qala border crossing between Iran’s Razavi Khorasan province and Afghanistan’s Herat province has presented a bleak scene as the Iranian regime has violently expelled Afghans ...

Two more refugees resettled in Cambodia from an Australian detention camp have returned home, the government said Tuesday, sparking renewed criticism about the Aus$55 million (US$40 million) scheme.

It’s easy to look at what is happening to Afghans living in Iran and conclude that, in our world, some deportations are worse than others; some refugees matter more than others; some hungry people ...

Pakistan has resumed the forced deportations of Afghan refugees, after declining to extend the registration of 1.4 million Afghans living legally in the country by the end of June, when their legal ...