The gap between Afghans and Syrians in asylum applications in European Union countries has been narrowing since December last year, according to an analysis released Thursday by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO).  Syrians were still the biggest group of asylum applicants in EU+...

A certain unease has gradually set in between Washington and European capitals still concerned with the Syrian issue. There are several sources for this. Syria does not constitute a priority for the Joe Biden administration, which has sent mixed signals about implementing Caesar Act sanctions....

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A month after the fall of Kabul, the world is still wrestling with how to help Afghanistan’s impoverished people without propping up their Taliban leaders — a question that grows more urgent by the day. With the Afghan government severed from the...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Friction between pragmatists and ideologues in the Taliban leadership has intensified since the group formed a hard-line Cabinet last week that is more in line with their harsh rule in the 1990s than their recent promises of inclusiveness, said two Afghans familiar...