Iran offers education and health services as well as livelihood opportunities for refugees, including banking services. It’s a matter of helping refugees thrive not survive as the UNHCR phrased it.

A large number of Afghan refugees are now living under inhumane conditions at a refugee camp near Kabul, says a report by Iran’s Tasnim news agency.

‘Dominic Raab is one of the worst foreign secretaries in British history,’ says Chief Whip of the Lib Dem

The European Union governments have drawn criticism from EU lawmakers and campaign groups over their respone to the crisis in Afghanistan.

Turkey says it has received a request from the Taliban in Afghanistan to operate the international airport in Kabul, shortly after Ankara reversed a decision to provide security for the airfield at the behest of the United States due to the deteriorating security situation in the country.

US Marines have seized control of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul to oversee evacuation of American civilians and diplomats, while the Taliban control the city.

Despite US claims that they have been training and strengthening the country's military and administration during the last decade or so, it took about a fortnight for the Taliban to regain control of the whole of Afghanistan.

The international community has reacted to the Taliban takeover of the Afghan capital with some politicians, including those in the West, criticizing the outcome of their 20 year presence in Afghanistan.

An Iranian Interior Ministry official says the regulation has been reformed so as to prevent educational deprivation among migrant children.