Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has told Germany that it should not become a “fortress” to his nation’s migrants, reminding the country that Europe is in demographic decline and needs foreign labour.
Nearly half a million Afghan migrants have left Iran and returned home since January because of its weak economy, worsened by U.S. sanctions, a report from the Los Angeles Times detailed on Thursday.
A Swedish activist has blocked the deportation of a failed Afghan asylum seeker, by refusing to sit down on a flight, crying, and live-streaming the chaos online.
Two 18-year-old Afghans were convicted of brutally raping a Swedish woman who campaigned against the deportation of Afghan migrants.
A failed asylum seeker who was deported to Afghanistan in 2010 and returned to the UK last year via Italy has been jailed for raping an 18-year-old, treating her as “a disposable sexual commodity”.
BERLIN (AP) — Police say a man from Afghanistan who tried to reach German Chancellor Angela Merkel as she exited Parliament has been committed to a psychiatric clinic.
The 23-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who was arrested in connection with the stabbings of four people Wednesday night in Vienna has confessed to the attacks, saying he stabbed them because he was “in a bad mood”.
Police in Vienna have arrested an Afghan migrant after four people were stabbed in the second district of Vienna in two separate incidents, although police are not confirming the man is a suspect in both. Four people have been stabbed in two
An Afghan man has been jailed after raping a pregnant woman at knifepoint in her own bed, and for an attack on a sleeping victim as her baby lay beside her in a cot.
An 18-year-old migrant from Afghanistan has been arrested in the Austrian capital of Vienna after police allege he stabbed his own 14-year-old sister to death in an apparent honour killing.
VIENNA (AP) — German officials say a review of the security situation in Afghanistan supports the current practice of deporting certain Afghan asylum seekers back to the country.
BERLIN (AP) — The German government said Thursday it will continue to deport people to Afghanistan if they are considered a threat, have committed crimes or persistently refuse to reveal their identity. The government earlier had said it would consider
An Afghan migrant who murdered his Swedish girlfriend’s father and attempted to kill her mother is likely to be given a short jail sentence. He “could easily be out by summer 2018”, according to criminology professor Leif GW Persson.
An asylum seeker from Afghanistan who is the main suspect in a murder in Sweden was allegedly promised marriage in exchange for killing the victim.
Several asylum seekers in Sweden have killed themselves in recent weeks, and the government has held a crisis meeting to find the cause and deal with the issue. Five asylum seekers have taken their lives in Sweden, three of them
Despite the German federal government’s plan to deport thousands of failed Afghan asylum seekers, German regions are not cooperating and claim Afghanistan has become far too dangerous.
Drama teacher and actor Mohammad Arvan has started classes for ‘unaccompanied minors’ in which he tells the young migrants how to pick up Swedish women.
KABUL (AFP) – Germany deported a second batch of would-be Afghan refugees to Kabul Tuesday under a disputed Afghan-EU deal signed last October and aimed at curbing the influx of migrants.
An Afghan migrant, who was convicted of beheading a woman in the Netherlands, walked unchecked into the UK where he went on to brutally attack two police officers with a claw hammer.
Called the “Taliban trick”, Afghan migrants who are scheduled to be deported are claiming to be members of the Taliban forcing police to open criminal investigations preventing their deportation. The German government wants to deport thousands of Afghan nationals because
Migration Board employees granted permanent residency to as many migrants as possible before new rules to tighten Sweden’s asylum policy came into force, sources told Svenska Dagbladet.
A 17-year-old Afghan migrant who arrived in Germany as an unaccompanied minor in 2015 has been arrested for the rape and murder of a 19-year-old medical student.
Hundreds of migrants have been arrested for taking part in a huge riot in Bulgaria after they were quarantined due to the prevalence of infectious diseases in the camp.
Despite the clean, safe, accommodation on offer for them across France, migrants moved from the Calais “jungle” say they are more determined than ever to reach the UK. France’s refusal to grant them large city dwellings, and the desire to
Migrants with recognised refugee status are holidaying in the countries they supposedly “fled”, their vacations funded by German taxpayers, a newspaper has found.
An Afghan caught traveling 400km attached to a lorry’s undercarriage has announced that he still plans to sneak into Northern Europe. Drivers alerted police to the young Afghan man after they caught sight of him suspended from a makeshift belt harness. Traffic
(AFP) – The number of people internally displaced by war in Afghanistan has doubled since 2012 to 1.2 million, Amnesty International said Tuesday, citing government neglect and a lack of international attention. In its report entitled “My children will die
An Afghan man has been filmed (above) on a bus in Sweden ranting against Europeans and threatening to kill innocent civilians and eat human flesh. Directing his comments towards an elderly man, he accuses Swedes of being rapists and paedophiles
An Afghan migrant has killed a father of two, also from Afghanistan, because he considered singing a sin in Islam. The victim’s wife tragically noted they had “fled here from these religious fanatics”, only to find them in Europe too.
SOFIA, Bulgaria – A man travelling with a large group of refugees from Afghanistan was shot by a border police officer near the south-eastern Bulgarian town of Sredets late on Thursday and died on his way to the hospital, a
