Members of Old Order Amish community in Sugar Grove Township have long opposed local ordinances mandating that they abandon outhouses and connect residences to municipal sewer system U.S ...

Copies of Old Order Amish legal filings challenging Sugar Grove Township’s attempts to force the Amish to hook up to sewer lines are pictured. Times Observer file photo After years of legal wrangling, ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan wants to remove all Afghan refugees from the country and they face expulsion in the near future, the Afghan embassy in Islamabad warned Wednesday. The embassy issued a ...

The Trump administration has told the office overseeing the resettlement of Afghans to the United States to draw up plans to shut down by April. The move could strand more than 250,000 Afghans ...

The United Nations agencies focused on refugees and migration jointly voiced their concerns Wednesday over Pakistan's plans to begin a new round of mass deportations of Afghan refugees and asylum ...

Afghan refugees hold placards during their meeting to discuss situation after President Donald Trump paused the U.S. refugee programs, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo ...

(RNS) — Thousands of Afghan wartime allies have completed years of security vetting and final medical checks, but their travel is now indefinitely on hold. (RNS) — “We will bring honor to ...

David Lavery was detained by Taliban authorities in Kabul in November 2024 and had made headlines three years earlier helping in the evacuation of Afghans during the withdrawal of U.S. and allied ...

Banned from school by the Taliban, Afghan women fear President Donald Trump’s suspension of foreign assistance will deny them a last chance at an education. After the U.S. military withdrawal ...

Catherine Ordway voluntarily represented the Afghan women's cricket team to evacuate them to Australia following the Taliban re-occupation in August 2021, and continues to provide ongoing support ...

Then America stopped all refugee flights, effective Jan. 27, leaving hundreds — likely thousands — of Afghans bound for Houston sitting and waiting. Those already in Texas, meanwhile ...