afghanistan

Immigration

Afghan refugee faces deportation after 25 years in Switzerland

A Swiss court has ruled that a 27-year-old Afghan man who came to Switzerland as a refugee at the age of two should be deported to Afghanistan after committing a number of crimes.

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MSF decries US bombing of Afghan hospital

All international aid organizations have left the embattled Afghan city of Kunduz following a US air strike on a hospital run by medical charity MSF and amid heavy fighting, the UN said in Geneva on Tuesday.

Immigration

Euro court bars Swiss from deporting refugees

The European Court of Human Rights barred Switzerland on Tuesday from sending a family of Afghan migrants back to Italy, ruling their well-being could be at risk.

afghanistan

Swiss ex-hostages speak of Taliban kidnap ordeal

<p>Two Swiss former hostages who escaped their Taliban captors in March after eight months in a Pakistani tribal zone told a newspaper on Sunday of their ordeal, giving a rare glimpse into the torn region.</p>